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Last week Drs. Thomas James Glover of New York and Jacob Lenhert Engle of Philadelphia, after ten years' research, proposed a spore-bearing organism. They find the spore-bearing germ in human breast cancer, can grow the material like any germ, and with cultures produce secondary cancers in guinea pigs, animals notoriously difficult to render cancerous. The National Institute of Health thinks so well of Drs. Glover and Engle's work that it let their last week's announcement bear the Institute's cachet...
...luxurious Park Avenue apartment of Irving Ter Bush has for the past few years been chiefly noted as the place where his third wife. Marion Spore, painted her weird, mystically-inspired "automatic paintings" (TIME, Feb. 20). Onetime practicing dentist, later a charitarian "Angel of the Bowery," Marion Spore Bush explains that she picks up a brush, starts in one corner of a large canvas "without the slightest idea what is going to happen." In her studio for the last few weeks have gathered regularly her husband's henchmen to talk strategy for his campaign to regain control of Bush...
...showed clearly that profits had been overstated, that payments of dividends to stockholders (of which Founder Bush is the largest) had been continued long after profits and the company's financial condition justified. Not mentioned in the report but long discussed in Manhattan was crystal-gazing Marion Spore's interest in her husband's business affairs, of strange policies emanating from the Bush apartment, mysterious orders that went out to the Bush organization...
...former Marion Spore of Bay City, Mich., redhaired, fortyish Mrs. Bush (sister of Naval Commander James S. Spore, onetime Governor of Guam) has been a practicing dentist and a practical philanthropist, known in the penny press as "The Angel of the Bowery...
...Drayton and Ames have discovered several new and important facts, about certain types of fungi in their experiment. Nothing has been known until very recently about the sexual reproduction of fungi. Through their experiments these men have discovered that in the types of fungi they studied a single spore gives rise to a fungus plant, which produces both types of fungi they studied a single spore gives rise to fungus plant, which produces both types of reproductive organs. It is therefore hermaphroditic. But, the interesting point is that the fungus is both self-sterile and cross-fertile a condition which...