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According to Dr. von Bremer, cancer comes from a germ which skulks inside red blood cells. Berlin papers printed pictures of such cancerigenic germs, which Dr. von Bremer claimed to have separated from their hosts. He has even bred the germs and with their descendants created cancers in perfectly healthy creatures. And if he spoke the truth he has cured cancers medically rather than surgically...
Augustabernard, noted for her temper. is popular in the U. S. She is noted for her superb technique which makes her dresses the favorites of connoisseurs. Commercial buyers are less enthusiastic. Her gowns depend on expensive materials, are difficult to copy. But she has a large following among well-bred socialites, dresses some of the smartest women in Paris...
Bill Bullitt was also born & bred a Philadelphia socialite of the bluest. But today he is famed as the only envoy in Moscow whom Bolsheviks consider practically one of themselves. His second wife was the widow of famed U.S. Communist John Reed who lies buried in the Kremlin wall. Two months ago he persuaded the Russian high command to tell off a squad of cavalrymen to learn polo from his secretary. He pointed out that polo was played many centuries ago by the horsemen of Tibet who gave it its name pulu. Ambassador Bullitt, in trig khaki riding breeches...
...Katharine White, Boston-bred, Bryn Mawr-schooled, joined The New Yorker in its first spring as a reader. Says FORTUNE: "Ross was without taste, either literary or good. . . . Katharine Angell, hard, suave, ambitious, had both kinds and Ross was bright enough to see it. Definitely an antifeminist, he resented her at first, used to tear his hair and bellow that his magazine was 'run by women and children.' But he has long since grown to depend on her, often considers her his most important executive. ... It was she who raised the standard of prose and verse." Her salary as managing...
Died. Franklin MacVeagh, 94, onetime (1909-13) Secretary of the Treasury, longtime wholesale grocer, great-uncle of U. S. Minister to Greece Lincoln MacVeagh; of bronchial pneumonia; in Chicago. Farm-born, Yale-bred, he entered politics as a Democrat, could not stomach the Bryan Silver Policy, turned Republican, later disturbed Republicans by urging lower tariffs. In 1928 he supported the Smith candidacy...