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When a child's sex is ambiguous at birth, it is almost always thought to be a female, sometimes rightly, sometimes wrongly. A wrong guess is usually the basis of "sex changes" which make headlines. At puberty the increased production of male hormones from the glands causes the alarming "change." Then the girl changes clothes and assumes the sex which, glandularly speaking, he actually had from the beginning. It sometimes happens, however, that a normal girl suddenly begins to acquire virile features. Medical men are convinced that this is due to tumorous growths which take root on the normal...
...department store clerk, his sixth wife; in Colorado Springs, Colo. Fortnight ago he divorced his fifth wife, is reported to have paid her $500.000. Said Father Waggoner once: "Anybody who can't appreciate a pretty woman, a fast horse, and a good beef steer-well, something's wrong with his head." Divorced, Mrs. Lou Hoover Dunbar, daughter of retiring Dean Theodore Jesse Hoover of Stanford University's School of Engineering, niece of Herbert Hoover; and Ernest A. Dunbar; in San Jose, Calif...
...representative from either mail house appears to see how things are going, he is admitted only with a plant chaperone to make sure he does not stray out of bounds. Scrap paper and trial pages from the presses are impounded lest prices, layouts or even ideas fall into the wrong hands. Now that the forms are closed and the catalogs are on the presses this precious rubbish can be sold as waste paper. Because of all this mummery publicity men for the two houses have rough going. They must be extremely chary about the sort of figures they release...
...Wrong prices are so rare as to be almost negligible as a source of loss on the books. Montgomery Ward recalls with horror, however, that once tilt sheeting was erroneously priced at 92? instead of $9.25. A few alert customers jumped in with large orders, which were filled at the list price...
...Nancy picked up with a raiding British soldier, bore his child in the woods during an attack, was saved by an Indian who took her for his squaw. Organized warfare in the wilderness was a prolonged nightmare, with militiamen quarreling with regulars, regulars making more enemies by attacking the wrong Indian tribes. When General Herkimer, superb Indian fighter, led 800 militiamen against Butler's force of a thousand British regulars and Tories and a thousand Indians, he was driven into an ambush by his cocky, inexperienced officers. After he had driven the enemy off, directed a six-hour battle...