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...laboratory Dr. Perry induced unseasonable sex activity by shining ordinary 25-watt lamps on sparrows much less than a year old. The beaks of the males turned dark and their testes developed spermatozoa; the ovaries of the females were swollen, contained numerous eggs. The scientist evoked even more pronounced gland changes with ultraviolet light...
Hulking, booming Otto Neurath, who gives the impression of oozing vitality from every pore, is a social scientist of international distinction. Son of the late Economist Wilhelm Neurath, he was born about 50 years ago in Vienna, became a professor of economics at Vienna's commercial Hochschule. In that city he founded and directed for nine years a museum of social and economic sciences. Of strong socialist leanings in politics, he now lives in The Hague, is writing a book to be called The Life of Modern Man. Some years ago. Dr. Neurath devised a method of conveying social...
...London, a brilliant young U. S. scientist is searching for a vanished physicist, his former professor. But when he locates him, the professor denies his identity, frames his onetime protege to get him out of the way. Chief of the shady facts about the professor is that his real name is MacMichael, that he lives in a Mojave Desert hideout called Barstow...
...Angeles, a nervy adventurer is investigating the mysterious murder of his brother, a reporter. Clues lead dangerously to the Brotherhood of the Judgment, a fanatical sect headed by sinister Father John, whose real name is MacMichael. Sect headquarters are in Barstow. There arrive the architect, the scientist and the adventurer. During the next 187 pages, at the MacMichael desert palace, the three young men are shot at, kidnapped, finally escape an awful doom, not very much to a reader's relief...
Born. To George Vanderbilt, age 23, scientist, explorer, sportsman, heir to half of the $20,000,000 estate left by his father, the late Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt; and to Lucille Parsons Vanderbilt; a 6-lb. daughter, their first child; in Honolulu...