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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Physicians have long sought a test which would warn them of the presence of invisible, embryonic cancers. Last week cancer specialists found new hope in a simple cancer test reported in Science by Drs. Theodore Herman Elsasser and George Barclay Wallace of New York University's Medical School...
After Willie's death Editor Ellis made up an imaginary boy to edit his magazine for: Skeeter Bennet, a high-school sophomore 15½ years old, five feet four inches tall, weight 114 pounds. With 285,000 Skeeters reading The American Boy Editor Ellis bought out Youth's Companion...
Biggest gift was $586,000 to Boston University to help build a new business-school building. Last week Josiah Hayden repaired to B. U., sat himself in a chair, beamed as he heard money make silky talk. Up to speak at founders' day exercises rose B. U.'s President Daniel L. Marsh. Mr. Marsh delivered a 40-minute effusion on "one of the most successful, dynamic and achieving lives that America has yet produced-the life of Charles Hayden...
...generation ago, U. S. immigrants found sanctuary and a melting pot in church or shop. Today's immigrants, a more intellectual group, find both in school. Most famed German immigrants welcomed by U. S. schools are Thomas Mann, now at Princeton, and Albert Einstein, at the nearby Institute for Advanced Study. At the New School for Social Research in Manhattan is a "University in Exile," whose entire faculty consists of European notables. But it is as students, not teachers, that many refugees have found a chance to begin life afresh in U. S. colleges,* public and private schools...
...These schools open their doors to adult refugees for fun and work by night, to children by day. A newly formed Progressive Schools' Committee for Refugee Children, representing some 20 Eastern schools, has found institutions so eager to enroll such children that there are not enough refugees to go around. Reason for their eagerness: presence of refugees in a school is more educational to the other children than books or newspapers...