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York has seen since Depression, this was a show not to be missed. With the exception of two pieces, one that could not be borrowed and another that had been stolen, it contained all the work in wool embroidery that Marguerite Thompson Zorach has ever done, all she will ever do. No humble samplers, the embroidered pictures took years to finish. Nearly all were ordered on commission, cost their purchasers from $1,000 to $20,000 apiece. Wife of William Zorach, able modern sculptor, tousled, amiable Marguerite Thompson Zorach thinks of herself primarily as a painter. California-born...
Next day constables cautioned Belgrave Square traffic to go slowly and quietly. Carpenters coming to work on a building two doors away beamed: ''Lor' love you, we'll put cotton wool on our hammers if the Duke wants us to." In the sun on No. 3's front stoop a big black cat leisurely washed itself. It was raining when Edward of Wales arrived to pay his respects to his latest nephew...
...Zurich laboratory had just cabled him word of their success. Testosterone is the name of the new hormone. It is related to the male sex hormone, androsterone, found in urine which Dr. Ruzicka previously synthesized. Like androsterone, testosterone is made from the fat (cholesterol) in sheep's wool, but is 25 to 50 times as potent a masculinizer as concentrated androsterone...
...produce one ounce of natural testosterone would require the castration of some 1,000,000 sturdy men. German and Swiss chemical laboratories are already prepared, said Dr. Ruzicka last week, to manufacture from sheep's wool all the testosterone the world needs to cure homosexuals, revitalize...
...Donahue of New York celebrated solemn pontifical mass. In heavy cope and towering mitre, Bishop John Joseph Cantwell of Los Angeles and San Diego approached a wiry, bespectacled prelate, wearing no cope but kneeling with mitre in hand. Over the head of the kneeler Bishop Cantwell slipped a white wool band decorated with black crosses-a pallium. Thus invested with the sacred symbol which signifies that he shares the supreme pastoral power of His Holiness Pius XI, San Francisco's new Archbishop John Joseph Mitty arose, blessed his flock...