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...female deliver its young. But millions of pocket-gopher squeals testify that the female can deliver. In 1925 Dr. Hisaw discovered how: during pregnancy the female pocket gopher secretes a hormone that causes part of the pubic bones to dissolve, leaving a wider opening. Hisaw named the hormone "relaxin" (TIME, April...
...Reward of Patience. Other scientists were not convinced that Dr. Hisaw had discovered anything, because relaxin proved incredibly elusive. But at the University of Wisconsin he had a graduate student named Robert Kroc, who was not only convinced but determined to put Dr. Hisaw's discovery to use. In 1944 Kroc went to work in the laboratories of the Maltine Co., now part of New Jersey's Warner-Chilcott Laboratories. After an expenditure of eleven years and an estimated $1,000,000, Kroc found a way to apply the pocket gopher's hormone to the human female...
This week Warner-Chilcott announced that all that painstaking effort has produced a new medicine to forestall premature birth. The firm released to medical centers and drug wholesalers a hormone derivative called Releasin, which has the properties of relaxin. In a human, the drug does not work as drastically as in gophers, but it has the effect of "softening" tissues in the birth canal. It does not simply make delivery easier-though it does that too. Its chief virtue is to halt premature labor so that a fetus can be carried to term, or nearly...
...Charlotte, N.C., torrid Trumpeter Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong, a blower of wild-valved cadenzas that could never be confused with the strains of Bandleader Guy ("the sweetest music this side of Heaven") Lombardo, double-crossed his own feverish admirers. Between gulps, Satchmo satchmoed: "Lombardo's the greatest. He is relaxin'. He got a good style, and he ain't tryin' to fool nobody. The new cats around now, they ain't provin' nothin...
...tired of playing When My Baby Smiles at Me." As with many another jazzbo, there were spectacular years with John Barleycorn, until Muggsy wound up "dying" of a perforated ulcer in New Orleans' Touro Infirmary. Saved by an emergency operation and convalescing, he composed his jazz classic, Relaxin' at the Touro. He also learned that "you can't play and drink. You can't drink and sell pencils, as a matter of fact-they fall out of your hand, don't they...