Word: pd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Asset for Longevity? In the human X chromosome, the gene for red-green color recognition is located fairly close to those for G-6-PD and for the blood factor that gives protection against hemophilia B. So color blindness, G-6-PD deficiency and this form of hemophilia are inherited according to the same pattern. Nearly always, in the conception of a female, the X chromosome from one healthy parent will carry the normal gene, and one is enough. But a man must get his X chromosome from his mother, and if she carries the defective gene...
...professional whose genius ripened early and produced an indelible monument in the wartime characters of Willie and Joe, Bill Mauldin floundered aimlessly through the postwar years before rediscovering and refining his talent on the PD...
...Link. The story told how Frank Prince, 71, principal stockholder in St. Louis' Universal Match Corp. and a complex of subsidiary firms, had, between 1908 and 1925, served three prison terms, totaling nearly ten years, for forgery, grand larceny, and issuing fraudulent checks. Two days later the PD, in its ice-cold charity, followed up with another Prince piece, repeating the same facts and adding a few of even less apparent import, e.g., one Prince company makes a currency-changing machine capable of being used at race tracks...