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Politics is not an exact science.-Otto Von Bismarck...
...Stader reduction splint" was devised in 1931 by Veterinary Otto Stader (of Ardmore, Pa.) because his canine patients gnawed plaster casts off their legs. When Drs. Kenneth Lewis and Lester Breidenbach of Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital saw a Stader splint on a dog, they were impressed at once with the fact that it drew the broken bones back into their normal position and served as a convenient splint while they grew together again...
...Institute, was later one of the first winners of the Harmon Foundation's awards for Negro artists. With his award money ($100) he bought a one-way ticket to Paris, eked out four years of vie de Bohème on $750, a handout of the late Otto H. Kahn. Artist Woodruff returned to the U.S. in 1931 to take his post as art instructor at Atlanta, has remained there ever since. In 1936 he spent a summer studying mural painting in Mexico with Diego Rivera...
...German-speaking listeners Philadelphia's station WTEL brought news this week: U.S. technical research, declared WTEL in impeccable German, is superior to the Reich's, will help win the war. The speaker was Biochemist Dr. Otto Meyerhof, refugee Nobel Prizewinner (1922). He was only one of numerous authorities on a new program now telling Philadelphia's 200,000 German-Americans why the Nazis are not invincible...
...Pied Piper (Monty Woolley, Anne Baxter, Otto Preminger, Roddy McDowall, Peggy Ann Garner; TIME...