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...inevitable fight over what is one of the most important biological findings in history"-Professor Julian Sorell Huxley of London. Other speakers and a formal resolution politely denounced the recent White House Conference on Child Health & Protection (TIME, Dec. 1) for not mentioning birth control at all. Dr. Ira Solomon Wile of Manhattan called the White House Conference "a total, a complete and excellently devised demonstration of an ostrich policy. This is unjust to the ostrich, however, as it does not bury its head quite so deeply." Otherwise the birth controllers were placid. They reiterated an old boast that their...
Married. Frances Gershwin. 22, sister of Composer George Gershwin and Lyricist Ira Gershwin; and Leopold Godowsky Jr., 30, son of Pianist Leopold Godowsky; in the Gershwin brothers' Manhattan roof apartment. Brother George played them his "Rhapsody In Blue" on a grand piano...
...quartet of young men sufficiently resembling cowboys who amble across the stage three times in the first act and sing a sweet, lazy little song called "Bidin' My Time (That's the Kind of Guy I'm)." The attraction also contains the best music George & Ira Gershwin have written since Oh, Kay!, an outstandingly comely chorus, talented and virginal...
...last week an army airplane piloted by Captain Ira C. Eaker carried Hanford MacNider, Iowa banker, onetime (1925-28) Assistant Secretary of War, from Washington to Ottawa, where he presented his credentials as U. S. Minister to tall, slender, white-whiskered Freeman Freeman-Thomas, Viscount Willingdon, Baron of Ration, Governor-General of Canada. Before he left Washington, Minister MacNider had been thoroughly coached by President Hoover on the major problems at issue between the U. S. and Canada...
...Died. Ira Nelson Hollis, 74 longtime (1893-1913) professor of engineering at Harvard University, onetime (1913-25) president of Worcester Polytechnic Institute, designer and builder of the stadium at Soldiers' Field in Cambridge; after a short illness; in Cambridge, Mass...