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...droll little mite is the leucocyte, scooting here & there, sending out inquisitive pseudopodia (prolongations) as does the amoeba. Policeman of the blood stream, it scavenges waste, destroys certain bacteria, ignoring some and gobbling others with gusto. Pus is compounded of dead bacteria, dead leucocytes. It is well known that the leucocyte count is high in infancy and old age, decreasing in between. Massage, exercise, eating proteins increase it; fasting lowers it. In such infections as pneumonia and appendicitis the white cells rush to the defense of the infected tissue, are replaced by peculiar polymorphonuclear-neutrophile cells, called "band-form" from...
...best U. S. show horses: Mrs. Florence F. Dibble's veteran Flowing Gold, winner in the class for large saddle horses; Mrs. John Hay Whitney's string of dappled grey hunters; Mrs. William C. Cox's bay gelding hackney pony Cassilis Mighty's Mite, who won the Killearn Farm Challenge Trophy; Mrs. Paul Moore's famed Seaton Pippin, world's champion hackney. Interest in the jumpers centered this year on the Irish Free State's string. Outstanding jumper from Ireland was Shannon Power, a 5-year-old chestnut gelding, winner...
Canadian Magazine (circulation: 96,288*) is Canada's oldest and most deeply intrenched general magazine. In format and contents it might be rated a mite inferior to National Home Monthly. It is published by Major Hugh C. MacLean who started in the magazine business with his brother Col. John by founding the Canadian Grocer 45 years ago. Now the brothers spell their names differently, never speak...
...tabloids) that a son had been born. Later he issued a formal appeal for privacy "to permit our children to lead the lives of normal Americans." The Press gratefully accepted the notice, put rewrite men to work in various characteristic fashions: United Press: "Englewood, N. J.-A new mite of humanity . . . slept tonight in the nursery of the kidnapped and murdered Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. ... In an adjoining room, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, rested from the ordeal of motherhood, listened delightedly to the shrill wails of the new arrival. . . ." Universal: ". . . He came at 7:30 o'clock in the white...
...Jewry was urged last week, as it is annually, to give its mite to rebuild the Jewish National Home in Palestine. Not all Jews approve or understand the politico-emotional band which is the World Zionist Organization, but all may contribute to the Jewish Agency, which includes Zionists and non-Zionists. Quota this year is $2,500,000, of which one million is to be raised in New York City...