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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many a curious glance was directed at her. For once this sensible woman had put herself in an altogether too quixotic position. She was on record as believing that Communist influence in the A. Y. C. was negligible. As to that, the youngest youth in the hall knew that Mrs. Roosevelt was either kidding herself or being taken for a ride...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YOUTH: Monstrous Lobby | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

Divorced. William Stix, 28, Washington lawyer; by Yaltah Menuhin Stix, 18, youngest of the musical Menuhin family (Brother Yehudi, Sister Hephzibah); in San Jose, Calif. Grounds: neglect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 19, 1940 | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

Died. Prince Christopher of Greece, 51, youngest brother of the late King Constantine, uncle of George II of the Hellenes, uncle of the Duchess of Kent, known to the U. S. for his marriage to wealthy Mrs. William B. Leeds; from a lung abscess; in Athens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 29, 1940 | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

Less liberal than Cardinal Mundelein, Archbishop Stritch is an energetic, well-liked prelate. He was born in Nashville, Tenn. of Irish parents. A scholastic prodigy-out of high school at 14, out of college at 16, a Ph.D. at 19-he was the youngest bishop in the U. S. (34) when he was made Bishop of Toledo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Stritch to Chicago | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

Eleven-Day Eggs. A research crew at the Department of Embryology got hold of two human ova only eleven days old, the youngest fertilized human eggs known. Since human ova usually spend about nine days after fertilization in the Fallopian tubes and uterine cavity before attachment to the wall of the uterus, these ova had probably been attached only two days. They were extracted from unidentified women for unnamed surgical reasons, and supplied to the Institution's embryologists by Dr. Arthur Tremain Hertig of Harvard. The ova show that the early stages of embryonic development are not, as used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Empire & Emperor | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

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