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A GIRL SCOUTING 1
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GIRL SCOUT WEEK
MARCH 1016, 1963
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Mutter at a Movl
I do not mind when they grope through
And crunch my toe (with cleat!)
And knock my spectacles askew
To take adjacent seats.
No, here's what makes my language
blunts
Five minutes pass, or ten,
And then they spot some seats down
front,
And here we go again!
Gtorgie Starbuck Galbrailh
These days the most effective way to diet
is to eat only what you can afford.
Anna Herbert
There's a rumor that Russia has a new
weapon which can wipe out the entire
United States without firing a shot
they've got a poison glue to put on trad
ing stamps.
A group of New York financiers
sent one of their members to Holly
wood to pick a new head of the
movie studio they owned there. He
was instructed to select an execu
tive who could bring organization
out of its chaotic financial condi
tion, and his return was anxiously
awaited because he had picked a
totally unknown minor officer.
"It was like this," the financier
explained to his colleagues. "All of
us were visiting the set of a circus
movie when one of the lions es
caped his cage and started stalking
around .angrily. Well, the way this
man reacted, I knew he was execu
tive caliber."
"He rescued somebody?"
"No," the financier replied,
"while everybody else was scream
ing and running around, this man
calmly walked into the empty cage
and locked himself in."
James Shurlock
A little boy had just heard about
all the satellites and missiles we
have been shooting into space, and
he seemed deeply disturbed. His
father asked him what was wrong.
"I think we're making a mistake
shooting things at Venus and
Mars," he replied. "They're liable
to get mad up there and stop send
ing us pencils and candy bars."
Frances Benson
"It's my wife, doctor," the man
told a psychiatrist "She's abnor
mally softhearted why, the cried
the other day because a dog had a
broken leg."
"Well," said the doctor, "that's
not unusual. Many women might
cry over a dog with a broken leg."
The man shook his head. "If the
dog is in a box of animal crackers?"
Hugh Burr
MEDICINE'S
FIGHT
(Continued jrom page 13)
which can be treated is pseudoherma
phroditism. This produces the carni
val's "half man, half woman" or
"bearded lady"; more commonly, fe
male infants with this condition are
reared as boys, despite their physical
inadequacy. Ordinarily, the pituitary
and adrenal glands work in conjunc
tion to maintain hormone balance.
When the adrenal gland fails, how
ever, an excess of male hormones re
sults. If the baby is female, she will
grow up with bass voice, beard in
other words, with male characteris
tics so pronounced her life will be
a freakish nightmare. It is avertable
now because, having learned what
went wrong, we can inject adrenal
hormones into the infant and do what
nature has not. Surgery corrects any
physical malformation, and there are
now cases where girls with this dis
order, have grown up normally and
had normal children of their own.
What caused the adrenal gland and
liver to go wrong? One theory for
PKU brings us to the foundation of
Family Wrrkly. March 10. 1M1
all living things the nucleic acids
DNA (deoxribonucleicacid) and RNA
(ribonucleic acid) which brought
1962 Nobel Frizes to the three scien
tists who discovered their molecular
structures.
DNA is believed to contain the
"code" which tells cells how to mul
tiply, whether into bone, .fingernail,
or muscle; RNA takes the messages
and generates the conversion of
chemicals to living protein. In PKU,
the theory goes, the DNA code is off,
and cells are commanded to form an
organ which functions incorrectly.
Before such theories can be proved,
and before we can hope to con
trol our heredity, we must be able to
read the code within DNA. Already
two U. S. doctors, J. Heinrich Mat
thaei and Marshall W. Nirenberg,
have taken the first step by reading
one code word the instruction for
making the important amino acid;
phenylalanine.
Further knowledge of DNA also
has led a scientific team to correct the
heredity of an imperfect human cell
for the first time. Drs. Waclaw and
Elizabeth Szybalski of the Univer
sity of Wisconsin took bone marrow
which failed to make a necessary
enzyme; when the cell split, it pro
duced other flawed cells. The doctors
fed the flawed cell perfect DNA.
When the cell multiplied this time, it
passed on a cell with a perfect DNA
code for further development
So great are these new avenues of
research that the Columbia-Presbyterian
Medical Center, with which
I am associated, has undertaken a
campaign to raise $50 million in de
velopment funds. A major portion
is earmarked for a substantial in
crease in its research program and
the rest for projects which will sup
port this effort directly or indirectly.
The late Dr. Thomas M. Rivers,
medical director of the National
Foundation, which also is carrying
on extensive research on birth de
fects, put our hopes this way:
"In recent research, man has
moved closer to the core of the mys
tery of life than through all the cen
turies that lie behind him ... It is
not too much to expect that some
day man will manipulate the nucleic
acid in the cells of intact living
bodies. When he can do that, he can
determine, to some degree as yet im
measurable, what kind of human
beings will inhabit the earth."
This is the ultimate dream, of
course, and a far-off one. But it is
coming closer.