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...substance is a protein with a huge, complex molecule of a type known as a euglobulin. It is called pure pituitary growth hormone. From two pounds of the front part of beef pituitary glands, Dr. Li extracts about a thousandth of an ounce...
...dachshunds. He thinks the pure product will be useful in preventing children with pituitary deficiency from becoming dwarfs. But he does not think enough will ever be available to make undersized nations bigger. Said he last week, when someone suggested that the Japs might get rid of their inferiority complex by using the growth hormone: "We are not interested in creating a race of behemoths or a regiment of giants...
...Lady in the Dark" is a complex job, as was the show, which required a revolving stage, and parts of it are worth the price of admission. The technicolor is gorgeous, and the setting impressive, making the whole movie a gorgeous spectacle. It has many of the bits that made the Moss Hart production the hit of 1941, but it doesn't go over entirely; and it's hard to place the blame...
...patternmaker in his father's stove shop in Detroit, caught the eye of Henry Ford by turning out patterns no one else seemed able to make. He showed the same rule-of-thumb genius when he went to work for Ford, translating Ford's production ideas into complex patterns of men & machines spilling out cars. When Ford dreamed of an activated production line, Sorensen tied a rope to a chassis, pulled it through the plant to see how the idea would work. Harddriving, brusque, he had little patience with underlings. One day a foundry foreman said...
...most Americans Andre Gide's name means little. Only a handful of intellectuals have long enthused over his most famous novel, The Counterfeiters (a complex study of Parisian youth), his unblushing autobiography, If It Die, and his perennial personal Journals. But last week it looked as if 1944 was going to be Gide year in the U.S. Publisher Alfred Knopf planned to publish Gide's Imaginary Interviews (discussions of art and society written while Gide was in Vichy France). French publisher in exile Jacques Schiffrin was preparing a French edition of Gide's latest Journals...