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...Quervain of Switzerland retold the well-known prophylactic use of iodine in common salt against goitre. It is less well-known that iodine as a preventive is effective only before adolescence. After puberty iodine may stimulate a latent goitre...
Bechhold of Frankfort retold of the goldplating of organisms too minute to be seen under the most powerful of microscopes-such as the bacteriophage of d'Herelle (TIME, Aug. 30). A solution known to contain or suspected of containing such organisms is mixed with a solution of gold chloride. The chlorine atoms are dragged away from those of the gold, leaving the gold to adhere to the ultramicroscopic organisms, like a fitted armor. Such golden cases may be counted, studied, and the nature of their petty contents learned by inference...
...written his greatest book, Bernice forced him back to her and delicately smothered his life-until the War. What the War meant to him, and why he did what he did in an airplane, are his ultimate revelation, made by himself in a letter which is better read than retold...
...Book.* Here is retold the story of two ancients and a man of middle age who, in 1295 A. D., returned to their native Venice after an absence of 26 years, so changed that they had to beat their way into their own house past forgetful relatives. They drove doubt from their listeners' minds by many changes of rich raiment during a banquet they straightway held, and by slitting seams of the rags they had arrived in and pouring forth heaps of jade, diamonds, rubies and other stones of the Far East. Even then they were not fully believed...
...country-bred Catering's betrayal by swaggering Prince Dimitri, how she fell to the gloomy, filthy Russian depths, how Dimitri found her in a Petrograd prison, how she was redeemed. Truly a melodramatic story, long drawn out by Tolstoy in psychological analysis and pragmatical moralizing, but in this opera retold with truly theatrical effectiveness in only four episodes. Therein, to music that was "strong, eloquently melodious, entirely southern despite the artful use of Slavic folk themes to create and sustain Russian atmosphere," Miss Garden found as good a part as she has had for years. On the stage most...