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Whatever the great U.S. ace race might be doing to fighter pilots' teamwork against the enemy, it was making news and new heroes. Out in front last week was a blond, crinkle-eyed, corn-fed youngster from Poplar, Wis. Over Hollandia, New Guinea, the Army Air Forces' stocky, 23-year-old Captain Richard Ira Bong had smashed Captain Eddie Rickenbacker's 26-year-old record* by knocking down his 26th and 27th Jap aircraft...
...patches and palm-roofed villages of free New Guinea the word came: him good fella white fella man had called for a big sing-sing to celebrate the passing of him bad fella Japan...
...Number of cases evacuated by air from major fronts: 70,808 from New Guinea, 58,479 from Tunisia, Sicily and Italy, 24,767 from the Solomons...
...Hisaw published these findings under the title, "The Influence of the Ovary on the Resorption of the Pubic Bones of the Pocket Gopher," nobody paid much attention. But endocrinologists began to get interested when Dr. Hisaw and fellow researchers found the relaxing substance in the blood of pregnant guinea pigs, rabbits, sows, dogs, cats, mares, women. In non-burrowing animals, relaxin dissolved no bone (as in the pocket gopher) but relaxed the pelvic ligaments and widened the pelvic canal, thus making birth easier. Hisaw found that even virgin female animals were relaxed by relaxin...
...remained to be proved that Dr. Hisaw had actually discovered a new hormone. He had found relatively large amounts of the relaxing substance (whose presence was proved by its effect on guinea pigs) in the corpus luteum (a yellow mass in the ovary) and in the placenta of various animals. But he had failed to determine its chemical composition. And his theory seemed to be knocked into a cocked hat when several European investigators succeeded in relaxing animals with injections of the well-known ovarian hormones, estrogen and progesterone...