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...years ago on Long Island, Mrs Lucy F. Kirk, 54, was driving with her son Payton when their automobile collided with one driven by George Cisler The Cisler automobile was damaged. A doctor examined Mrs. Kirk, found her apparently seriously injured. A Christian Scientist, she declined medical attention summoned, instead, a paid healer to pray over her and read from Mary Bakei Eddy's Science & Health. Mrs. Kirk made what looked like a complete recovery but later she said she suffered from headaches, a pain in the nose and tremors of the left hand. She had made good money...
...records, Mona is the first great ape of any kind ever known to produce more than one baby at a time.* He has seen chimpanzee ''twins'' in sideshows but the only proprietor he could question confessed deception when Dr. Yerkes told him he was a scientist. What goes on in the jungle Dr. Yerkes does not claim to know. But when a wild female ape is seen carrying two babies there is no assurance, says he, that she bore either of them. Though born somewhat prematurely. Mona's twins were last week approaching their first...
When Commander Oliver Stillingfleet Locker-Lampson, son of the poet Frederick Locker, was host to Albert Einstein eight months ago he was so convinced that Nazi agents would attempt to murder the benign German scientist that he mounted a guard of gamekeepers over him. Lately the blatant manifestations of black-shirted British Fascist Sir Oswald Mosley have filled Commander Locker-Lampson with wild alarm. He rose in the House of Commons last week to introduce a bill that would not only deprive Sir Oswald of his uniform, but would strip the shirt from his distinguished mother, the very dignified Katharine...
...first of her sex to enter the stratosphere is the ambition of Mrs. Jeannette Piccard, wife of Professor Jean Piccard, twin brother of Stratonaut Auguste. A Bryn Mawr graduate, holder of a master's degree in chemistry from the University of Chicago, Mrs. Piccard is no amateur scientist. To win her license she must make three balloon flights with an instructor, one solo flight by day, one at night...
Glory-Seekers. Up into the stratosphere last week soared the Bartsch von Sigsfeld, biggest balloon in Germany. Aboard were Dr. Hermann Victor Masuch, meteorologist, and Dr. Franz Martin Schrenk, pilot. Their purpose was to rise 32,800 ft., study cosmic rays, bring glory to the Reich. Next day scientist, pilot and balloon were reported missing. Day after in Russia, near the Latvian border, was found the wreckage of the Bartsch von Sigsfeld. In it was Meteorologist Masuch, dead. Nine miles away lay Pilot Schrenk, also dead...