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Some artists are convinced that pleasing the eye is no virtue. They call themselves visual researchers, and their wriggly art is as readable as Dr. Jekyll's new, improved eye chart...
...Northern Dancer, owned by Canadian Beer Baron E. P. Taylor, and ridden by-guess who?-Willie Shoemaker. The richest Canadian-bred race horse in history, with $261,365 already in the till, Northern Dancer won this month's 1½-mile Florida Derby handily enough to wow the chart callers. But if Shoemaker never said it in so many words, he hinted that the 1½-mile Kentucky Derby might be more than Northern Dancer could handle. "I like Northern Dancer's gameness, and I think he had a little bit left at the end in Florida," said...
...first husband, Chicago Tycoon Warren Wright, in 1931, three years after he had sold his controlling interest in Calumet Baking Powder Co. for $29.2 million. He insisted, nonetheless, that the farm show a profit. Wright spent as much as $75,000 on a single brood mare, hired experts to chart thoroughbred blood lines, handpicked every employee from blacksmith to exercise boys. At his death in 1950, Calumet was a high-pressure horse factory, the most successful thoroughbred breeding operation...
Within five days after her cycle starts (see chart), a woman's pituitary gland begins producing the follicle-stimulating hormone FSH, which travels through the blood to the ovaries, which contain about 300,000 follicles. FSH starts a few of these on a growth process that results in the production of one ovum (egg). Around the 14th day of the cycle, ovulation occurs: the follicle releases the ovum, which travels down the Fallopian tube toward the uterus. If it encounters a live spermatozoon on the way, or soon after its arrival, the ovum will be fertilized...
...study of mental collapse, Every Man is often impressive. But Novelist Von Doderer weakens his book by overloading it with biographical and clinical detail. The result is more case history than novel: the fever chart of childhood has dictated a whole life...