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...Reed Hospital, a young G.I. arrived from Guadalcanal with such a cancer. Dr. Friedman found, to his astonishment, that the soldier's sperm had become fertilized; by a kind of parthenogenesis (virgin birth), without female ova, the cancer had produced tumors resembling embryos, containing bits of placenta, lung, bone...
...United Nations, and Gregory Stadnik, a minor delegation adviser. The thugs promptly backed them up against a shelf full of Ritz crackers, Sun Crown prunes and Bernice Fruit Mix. One of the thugs fired the shot that was heard around the world; it caught Stadnik in the thigh bone...
...column (Pitching Horseshoes) one day last week, Showman Billy Rose had "a bone to pick with our top radio comedians." Said Rose...
...Martin ticket; in Connecticut, James L. McConaughy, onetime college president; in Michigan, racket-busting Kim Sigler; in California, Earl Warren, who had both parties' nominations. In Kansas it was veteran congressional tax expert Frank Carlson in a walk (despite his tacit support of the state's anomalous bone-dry law) over repeal-minded Harry Hines Woodring...
...women-some of them-were going to dress with rare elegance this winter. They were going to bare their shoulders, drape themselves in extravagant yards of rich cloth and go out on the town festooned with about every feminine furbelow short of a bone in the nose. The fabric restrictions, the drab colors and tailored lines of wartime were out. An opulent era of furs, jewels, lame, rustling silk and bouncing bustles, of feathers, tassels, braid and decontrolled nudity was here...