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wnas ne# « H LEMUEL» »ujr ^NEW YORK. July 18- lt;CPA\~A woman wrth n seminar of J16 000 mire » Southpaw Rid baseball pitcher who earns tl.nno a month, and a Slender young woman who i wU close in at the Washington ring-stdp impart a pleasant lourh of femininity to current newsprint.For 23 years Miss Maud 81yc has ! been immured in her Chicago laboratory, trying to pick the lock of the gene, the sub-microscopic Pandora a box wherein are locked the fateful variations which determine heredity■ and rail the tune of life for mice and men. These years are eons In the cosmos of mice, so, with manyi passing generations to work upon* | Mias 81,ve Is able to establish a I long trend curve, as they say in the■ i stock market and this Curve now ,! tells her that cancer susceptibilityIs inheritable Her researches are regarded by scientific men as pro-, i viding a valuable check on the Men-‘ delian theory of heredity.Mias Slye has vigorously opposed the medical hierarchy at times, but It accord? her the highest professional standing and authority. She is the holder of the gold medal of the American Medical Association,, the gold medal of the North Amcrl-, can Radiological Society, and other 1 honors and award*. Her researches ’ are carried on underitbe auspices of the Sprague Memorial Institute and the deportment of patholqgy of the University of Chicago, with which ’ she has been associated for many years.Born in Minneapolis in 1879, she was graduated from Brown University with post-graduate work at i I the University of Chicago. She taught physiology and pedagogy at the Rhode Island State Normal . School for a few years before en-tering her career as a pathologist. 1 Quietly, patiently, year In and year , out, working far iqto the night, she has spent her life In that border* r land where lie the secrets which may yet free humanity from an ancient scourge.‘ *••• . ' , . • . .April 3, 1931, was a nice day in Chattanooga, and Babe Ruth was in t an amiable mood. Hence, it is just . possible that a touch of gallantry guided his three cltuhsyswings f tr PARTON lt;t c «rnmn Tmm ^TAQthe errent balls tossed by IT-vear-old Jackie Mitchpll, girl pitchpr of the Chattanooga Club She fanned Lou Qehrtg, loo, and sports writers•and they. too. are chivalrous at times—made quite a fuss over her.At any rate, here she is today, opening the season' for the hirsute: bail team of the House of David at Middletown. N. Y. She gets St 000 a month through the 1933 season Her father, Dr. Joseph Mitchell, is a brisk, enterprising optician of Chattanooga. When Jackie was a little girl he saw her heave a rock w-ith auch speed and accuracy that he got Dazzy Vance to coach her. * She was a sensation on the sand I lots, but nevertheless postponed her ’ pitching career while she attended Signal School, a private preparatory school for girls. VShe Is a snub-nosed. blue-eyed,! ingenuous girl, with flat brown hair, and medium figure Her windup is like rranking an old Model T. but she is said to get. a puzzling kink on the^ball. :She was a sickly child and the coaching regime was. like Theodore Roosevelts, prescribed partly as a curative. \Aspiring, but typewriter bound, young women everywhere may look to the career of Mies Marguerite Lehand as showing what heights a. clever girl may reach when she starts to climb. Miss Lehand. private secretary to President Roosevelt. is one of the select few’ on the week-end trip with the President on the Sequoia. Thus, as usual, she has I an orchestra scat at what may In time be known as the greatest drama in American history. Enjoying the complete confidence of the president, always at his side on the firing line, she will some day have some valuable memoirs if she ever cares to write them.Mias Lehand has been with the Roosevelts since 1920. when she wae Roosevelts secretary in Ihe Vice Presidential campaign. She is young and slender, with prematurely gray hair and clear. blue eyes, nicely placed in a sunny office in the executive wing of the White House. She say's she had stage fright about going to Washington, but how feels i at home.
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Cincinnati Times Star
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Tue, Jul 18, 1933
Page 6
Full Page
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