Medicine: Y-A-C-E-M

Being worth $700,000 and better known to the ends of the earth than any initialed railroad, broadcasting station or New Deal agency, the Dionne Quintuplets last week assumed Y-A-C-E-M as their code name. Psychology Professor William Emet Blatz of the University of Toronto tagged them thus, cryptically indicating that intellectually Yvonne is superior to all her sisters, Marie inferior, with Annette, Cecile and Emilie ranging between.

Twice since their births the Quintuplets have been the subject of physiological reports by Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe, the country doctor who delivered the five little girls....

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