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...poetic. Among them: Artist Henry Varnum Poor, Cartoonist Milton Caniff (Terry & the Pirates), Composer Kurt Weill (Lady in the Dark). So did Helen Hayes, who lives down the river a way. So did several hundred less glamorous citizens-Italian and Polish truck gardeners behind the Hudson Highlands, and rock-ribbed Republicans who peacefully dairy-farm and grow cauliflower in the blue Catskill hills. Each did something about it in his own way: Playwright Anderson used his $180 from the New Yorker as a campaign contribution to beat Fish; Helen Hayes gave the voters a touch of histrionics-on-the-hustings...
...thing he would like to show the world is that he can reproduce himself scientifically. Artificial insemination was one step. He took another step last week, with the first recorded fertilization of a human ovum outside the mother's body. In Science last week Harvard Gynecologist John Rock and his assistant, Miriam F. Menkin, reported this scientific affront to womanhood. In a small watch glass, the two researchers put a human egg, cut from a woman's ovary. Next they put in some live male sperm. They let the mixture stand for an hour at room temperature, then...
...Rock was proud, but not that proud. He wanted it distinctly understood that he was making no claims of having created a test-tube baby. He has succeeded in thus fertilizing three ova. One of his products had reached the three-cell stage of growth. But Dr. Rock modestly doubted that science would ever be able to reproduce the complex of hormones and other substances in a mother's body required to develop the billions of cells that make up a human embryo. His experiments, however, have made it possible for the first time to see the beginnings...
...Hollywood" was promoted to Little Rock in the Eastern League for the next season, but a broken leg kept him out of action. That spring, however, he was up for a look-see, with the Cincinnati Reds in spring training. It was the year after the Reds had won the world's championship, and there was little room. However, he became good friends with Ival Goodman, Mike McCormick, and Bucky Waiters...
...most ceremonious, by all odds, were 100 Japs who were on the rocks below the Marpi Point cliff. All together, they suddenly bowed to marines watching from the cliff. Then they stripped off their clothes and bathed in the sea. Thus refreshed, they put on new clothes and spread a huge Jap flag on a smooth rock. Then the leader distributed hand grenades. One by one, as the pins were pulled, the Japs blew their insides...