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Scientists know that certain arthropods, including horseshoe crabs and bees (TIME, Jan. 1), can steer by the sun even when they cannot see it. All they need is a patch of blue sky. The light that comes from it is partially polarized,* and the direction in which the light vibrates shows the position of the sun. So the bees and crabs, whose eyes are sensitive to polarity, have only to look at the sky. It tells them where the sun is; then they steer by the sun, whether they...
...Pantheon. Under the sullen October sky, the grass of the infield gleamed, a green patch on the city's blotched and gritty drabness. In the deep rows of private boxes, maintained by Manhattan firms for the pleasure of their customers, and in the special seats reserved for the favored, were the notables, the affluent and the politicians-the FBI's J. Edgar Hoover, ex-President Herbert Hoover, Douglas MacArthur, Margaret Truman and Heavyweight Champion Joe Walcott. Among them sat the aging stars of past series-Rogers Hornsby, Carl Hubbell, Mel Ott, Frankie Frisch-a shadowy, wistful, watching pantheon...
...Patch of New Plaster. Under Sylvie's management, the hotel prospered. Seven months pregnant though she was, the new proprietress worked hard at her job. Her clothes were sometimes smeared with plaster, and she would explain: "I'm plugging up some of those rat holes in the cellar." An anonymous letter brought Police Inspectors Leloup and Lelong to the hotel. "Ah," said Sylvie, "I have good news for you. Madame is returning on Saturday." The policemen nodded: "We will be here...
...Saturday, when Aunt Jeanne did not return, Inspectors Leloup and Lelong decided to search the hotel. In the cellar, behind a pile of lumber, topped with a birdcage, they found a patch of new plaster. A few blows of a pickax revealed the naked, decaying body of Mme. Perron, a gag still wadded in her mouth...
...Brooklyn doctors have found that an extract from the liver of pregnant cows gives prompt relief to most of their cases of osteoarthritis (by far the commonest form of arthritis, for which ACTH and cortisone are useless). ¶ After an executive's son fell into a poison ivy patch, researchers of the National Lead Co. went to work, announced last week a quick cure for ivy poisoning: ointment containing a salt of zirconium...