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...permitted the delivered mother to contract blood poison, from which she died...
...insulin, declared doctors at Northwestern University medical school last week, is the intestinal secretion just discovered by Professor Andrew Conway Ivy and his physiology research associates there. Ingested fats and meats, plus the gastric juices, make the intestines secrete a something which causes a normal gall bladder to contract and thus empty its contents into the intestinal tract where they are needed to help the body properly assimilate its food. If the gall bladder-a bulbous sack 3 in. long by 1 in. to 1¼ in. in diameter connected with the liver, spleen & pancreas-does not empty...
...recently reported that Mr. Woollcott had informed his executive editor, Herbert Bayard Swope, that he will not continue his critical duties after his contract with the World expires in May. He plans to vacation in Italy, keep away from Broadway for a sabbatical year to renew his "sanity...
Weighing 216 pounds, George Herman Ruth, 35, joined the Yankee training camp at St. Petersburg, Fla., to start his fourteenth year in pro baseball. Dazzy Vance, Brooklyn pitcher, held out for a new contract at $20,000 a year, insisted on a clause that would allow him to play golf for one day after each game he pitched. "I lose," he said, "about twelve pounds in every game...
...Manhattan they had it that Marion Nevada Talley would not receive a renewal of her contract with the Metropolitan Opera Company, that if she sang there at all it would be as "guest" and only for two or three performances, that the name Talley made two seasons ago by an uncritical press would no longer be a big money-maker in Manhattan. The Talleys answered back-to the effect that quite the contrary was true. Signer Gatti-Casazza, master of the Metropolitan, seized another opportunity to remain silent...