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Sometimes nerves, like pollarded willows or clipped adenoids, will spread and grow after pruning. The growth rate may be an eighth of an inch a day, or even faster. This fact has been the basis of infantile-paralysis treatments by Lieut. Commander Harvey Ellsworth Billig, Jr. and Physiologist Anthonie Van Harreveld of the California Institute of Technology...
Lieut. Commander James Edward Van Zandt, 45, onetime commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, onetime isolationist and anglophobic U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania, who volunteered for Navy action when the Japs attacked Pearl Harbor, got a Legion of Merit from General MacArthur for "splendid performance of duty" as commander of assault waves in "sustained operations against the enemy...
Released last week by the American Council on Education, "College investments under War Conditions" disclosed that the collegiate moneylenders had not earned less than 4% since 1938. Noting that a few colleges were still following a "Rip van Winkle" financial policy of "turning over once and then sleeping," the Council recommended homework on the tried & true "Vassar Plan": buy stocks when the Dow-Jones industrial average is under 130, cash them in for bonds when the market booms...
...Most notorious artistic collaboration was Vichy Minister of Education Abel Bonnard's gift to Hermann Göring of the Van Eycks' famed Ghent altarpiece, Adoration of the Lamb...
Born. To Arthur Lake, 35, "Dagwood" of the "Blondie" cinema series, and Patricia Van Cleve Lake, 25; a second child, first daughter; in Hollywood. Name: Marion Rose. Weight...