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...white population of the U.S. The same pigment, by filtering solar radiation, impedes synthesis of vitamin D, which prevents rickets and is manufactured from the sun's rays by the body. As early man migrated out of the tropical sun-into the green jungle, north to less torrid zones-light skin thereupon conferred an advantage by admitting more vitamin D-produc-ing sunlight. And the lottery of evolution, patiently awaiting the appropriate mutation, then fixed this advantage into place. Thus, over the centuries, environmental factors were producing genetic changes...
Died. Ann Sheridan, 51, Hollywood's "Oomph Girl" of the 1930s, '40s and early '50s, whose red-haired beauty and deep velvet voice perfectly suited the gun molls and dance-hall girls she played in scores of potboilers (Torrid Zone) and some critical successes (King's Row), then, as her looks and the movieland whirl (including marriages to Actors Edward Norris and George Brent) faded, went into semiretirement until last year, when she married Actor Scott McKay and made a comeback in CBS's comedy series, Pistols 'n' Petticoats; of cancer...
Several scenes in Georgy Girl have no point at all, but seem thrown in to keep up the banal gaiety and give the scriptwriters a chance to show off their whimsey. For no reason that can be fathomed from the plot, Georgy does a torrid parody of a vamp, swinging down a staircase and singing Mae West style. Equally irrelevant is a remark her father makes in another scene; he doesn't "know to what this world is coming...
Married. Ann Sheridan, 51, a wisecracking chick in 1940 movies (Torrid Zone); and Scott McKay, 51, perennial road-company leading man; both for the third time; in Bel Air, Calif...
...Royal Thai Navy, and a motorboat using a new design of jet propulsion that Bhumibol himself had conceived. His current project: a do-it-yourself helicopter (see MODERN LIVING). Last week, as the King and Queen were enjoying the first of the monsoon rains, breaking the most torrid weather in years, news of the discovery of a new royal white elephant reached the summer palace at Hua Hin. It was the third one found in his reign...