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...Wanda Kirkbridge Farr of the U. S. Department of Agriculture and Miss Sophia H. Eckerson of the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research at Yonkers, N. Y. launched an intensive chemical drive on cotton fibres, which are almost pure cellulose. When they soaked the fibres in strong hydrochloric acid, the cellulose structure came visibly apart under powerful microscopes. The particles, it turned out, had not been too small to see but were hidden by a cementing substance that the acid dissolved. There were football-shaped bodies some .00006 in. long. As the cell wall was built the particles formed compact...
...Wanda Kirkbridge Farr (in private life Mrs. R. C. Saulwetter) is a shapely, well-dressed, vivacious cytorogist (cell anatomist) who got her master's degree at Columbia, did skin & cancer research in St. Louis, taught botany there, experimented for a time at the Boyce Thompson Institute, is now a government cotton technologist. Dr. Sophia H. Eckerson got her Ph. D. at University of Chicago, is a learned, shy spinster not far from 60. has been at Boyce Thompson for 14 years, is known to colleagues male & female as a clever and learned worker with plants...
Harpsichords. In Manhattan's Lewisohn Stadium one night last week swart Pianist-Conductor Jose Iturbi turned on a little-known facet of his exuberant talent. A harpsichordist for 26 years who has studied with the most publicized exponent of that ancient instrument, Mme Wanda Landowska, he tinkled bravely through a Haydn concerto, conducting the orchestra on the side as all performers did in the harpsichord's heyday, the first half of the 18th Century...
...semifinals, then discharged her caddy who had expected a large tip from her if she won the tournament. Next day, a raucous gallery of County Down caddies cheered loudly every time Miss Barton's opponent hit the ball, groaned mockingly when Miss Barton missed, gleefully watched Wanda Morgan win the title, 3 up and 2 to play...
...have helped Horowitz to a more profound approach to music. But the way was hard. When he first met the great conductor he was so awed that he hunched in a corner all evening and was scolded by his friends for sulking. He married the Maestro's daughter Wanda in 1933. Next year Pianist Horowitz will remain in Europe for a tour that is already solidly booked...