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...William Hallock Park, bacteriologist for the City, State and Nation in the Manhattan area and mainstay of the city's health activities, declared that serum taken from the blood of people convalescing from infantile paralysis was not especially valuable in preventing the disease in others. Said he: "We found that the percentage of cases which developed the paralytic symptoms was about the same as in the cases in which the serum was not used. No harm resulted from the treatment. But it was apparent that no benefits resulted...
...Manhattan (TIME, March 16 et ante.). The design of this cultural-commercial group of buildings, as yet nothing but three excavated city blocks, has been flayed as a "monstrosity." Its construction without adequate transportation planning has been called a "crime" because its inhabitants will congest an already over-congested area. Last week bristle-haired Raymond Mathewson Hood, one of the three designers of Radio City, went to its defense in an interview in which he praised congestion as a great civilizing force.* Declared Architect Hood...
...evidence with which to support this thesis, now generally accepted. Along the dry bed of the oldtime First Nile his Prehistoric Survey has found stone implements, first evidence of the appearance of man in Egypt, possibly a million years ago. Before that, Paleolithic man lived in the well-watered area that is now the Sahara Desert. When that region dried up (in the middle of the Old Stone Age) he tied to the Nile Valley...
Died. Rev. William Orville Shepard, 69, Bishop of the Mediterranean Area of the Methodist Episcopal Church (Southern Europe, Northern Africa, Liberia); in Paris...
...General William McDaniel Rowan, brother of Lieut. Andrew S. Rowan who carried the Message to Garcia, is Deputy Prohibition Administrator of Nebraska. Last week his area was under Investigation by Washington because of a liquor ring said to be operating successfully in Omaha. Four men have been taken for "rides" in the last six months, five murders have been attempted. General Rowan denied a liquor ring exists...