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...glands of dogs and guinea pigs in a salt solution and injecting the mixture under his skin. An audience of distinguished French scientists listened spellbound to details of the miraculous transformation. But Sequard's new lease on life lasted just one month; then he began to wither. When he died in 1894, he and the potentialities of the male hormone were both badly discredited...
Their nearest neighbor (J. Carrol Naish) is a man so confused and embittered by his own poverty and ambition that he does his best to frustrate their attempt to better themselves. They get a derelict house into shape, desperately watch one of their children wither under pellagra, raise a crop they can be proud of, get drunk at a wedding in town, reassemble the pitiful remnants of their year's work after a cloudburst, and come into the fall of the year in a resolute, proud, sad knowledge of their lives which is granted to few except farmers...
...operation on the colonel, Dr. Frumkin got much the same results that can be achieved by regular hormone injections or by pellets of slow-dissolving hormones implanted under the skin (TIME, Oct. 3, 1938). Many U.S. doctors say that such a grafted gland will inevitably wither & die after, at most, four years...
Nine months after the U.S. power drive in the Central Pacific left them to "wither on the vine," Japanese garrisons on four atolls in the Marshall Islands still held out last week. Almost daily they were pounded by aircraft, often they were bombarded by surface ships...
...sure today that it is no longer necessary to sweep up every island base on the way to the south coast of China, the objective beyond the Philippines announced by Admiral Nimitz in February. The battered Jap base at Rabaul on New Britain could be bypassed, left to wither. So might the Jap fortress at Truk...