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...Family Eyes. To link their children with a passing generation, Gulielma's parents both wrote novels about their youth for family reading only. Their daughters have chosen to write for a larger public; Gulielma's sister, who writes under her pen name, Mary O'Hara, is the author of the best-selling My Friend Flicka and Thunderhead. Gulielma, whose third book is Deer Creek, studied medicine, spent four years in China as a medical missionary, has been staff physician at Manhattan's Barnard College for more than a quarter of a century...
...Government's rickety but strategically important Alaska Railroad, the one all-weather link (470 miles) between Seward on the coast and Fairbanks in the interior, is being completely reconstructed. By 1952 its roadbed will be rebuilt, its rails and ancient rolling stock will be replaced, its narrow cuts (in which 106 moose had fatal head-on collisions with locomotives last winter) will be widened, its capacity for freight and passengers increased eight to ten times...
...published in 1901, there still lived in Germany a nonagenarian schoolteacher who had talked not only with young Leo Tolstoy, but with old Goethe himself. Mann, who has published 36 books in his 72 years of life, cites this old schoolteacher as the 20th Century's last physical link with the great world of Goethe, Beethoven, Mozart. But he does not suggest that that world's principal literary descendant today is Thomas Mann himself...
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...Hint from Hormones. Drs. Konrad Dobriner and Cornelius P. Rhoads of Manhattan's Memorial Hospital reported progress on Memorial's pet project-the search for the long-suspected link between hormones and cancer. After five years of extracting and peering, the doctors recently isolated a new hormonelike substance, called "Compound 18," that appears in the urine of almost all cancer patients, and almost never in normal urine. "18" may some day prove helpful in the detection of hidden internal cancer. One trouble is that 18 sometimes turns up in connection with various noncancerous conditions, such as high blood...