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...California's Stanford University last week Biologist Dietrich Bodenstein displayed a winged insect which was half immature pupa, half mature butterfly. This monster was a by-product of Dr. Bodenstein's discovery of the agency which causes the final metamorphosis from pupa to adult. It is a growth substance generated in the head which reaches the tissues through the skin. It may be a hormone, but since hormones have not previously been found in insects it may also be an enzyme or some sort of nerve stimulus...
...group turns so jaundiced an eye on radio as the American Federation of Musicians. Large scale dispenser of music, relatively small-scale employer of musicians, the industry looks to organized musicmakers like a mechanized monster which sent battalions into unemployment. Three years ago the Federation's New York Local 802 attacked dance-band programs piped into the studios from outside and then broadcast. They argued that musicians on such programs were doing two jobs for the price of one, demanded a fee ($3 per man per broadcast on network stations, less on local stations) to be paid for remote...
...steel-blue knife blade pressed flat into the heathery Scottish highlands lies 22½-mile Loch Ness. Natives of the district have for centuries been seeing kelpies, bogies, wills-o'-the-wisp. Relatively young, relatively real to the outside world is "Nessie," the lake's mysterious monster, "seen" every season since...
Last week, Captain Donald John Munro, R.N., C.M.G., opened the 1938 season by issuing a prospectus for Loch Ness Monster Co. Captain Munro announced that he would soon issue shilling shares to finance active research. He proposes to build three lookout towers, each equipped with a telephoto camera, range finder, stop watch, powerful binoculars, sound apparatus like that used for detecting the presence of submarines. L. N. M. Co. will determine Nessie's size, her speed of travel, and whether she is, as various eyewitnesses and scientists have declared: 1) an elephant seal which swam in from the North...
...final Ja, das ist ein Schnitzelbank number, with the audience joining in and yelling its head off over: Schnitzelbanko, Monster Franco, Fascist Yoke, Spanish Folk, Serene Impunity, Chinese Unity...