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...week's end the Norse were backed up to the north end of Lake Mjösa, and almost to Rena on the Glomma River. Their chance of surviving by guerrilla warfare until the Allies came-shooting down on valley highways from ambushes along the hills-was endangered by a shortage of materiel. The Germans had captured the country's most important ammunition factory, at Kongsberg, arsenals at Nittedal and Raufoss, a powder factory, 1,000,000 rounds of rifle ammunition. This was bad news because Norway's Krag-Jorgsen rifles (6.5 mm.) will not shoot...
...Florence Rena Sabin, 67. In 1893, plain, blonde Florence Sabin graduated from Smith College. After a short period of teaching zoology, she bravely entered Johns Hopkins Medical School, thus starting a long career of firsts: first woman to graduate from the Hopkins, first woman to teach there, first woman member of the Rockefeller Institute, first (and only) woman member of the National Academy of Sciences. She is famed for her discovery of the origin and processes of the lymphatic system, her account of the development of blood cells, her studies of the blood in tuberculosis, her testing of chemical substances...
Shortly after Tom Mooney was jailed 22 years ago his wife, Rena, then 38, was removed from the committees for his defense, was not active in organized attempts to free him. Tom swore he would have little more to do with her than was necessary for appearance sake. When he was released last month, Rena, somewhat tarnished in appearance, did not ride with him to receive his pardon. Since then they have seen little of each other. Newspapers hinted at a divorce; Tom called the rumors "lying statements by my enemies." But last week Rena...
...Rena Stinson, 27, expert rifle shot and personal secretary to Democratic Governor-reject Walter A. Huxman of Kansas, closed her desk in the State Capitol for the last time last week as her chief went out of office. She went home, began to clean her target rifle, shot herself in the left breast, almost but not quite fatally...
...RENA B. HESTWOOD Denver, Colo...