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"I am content," says Eleanor McClatchy of Sacramento, "to have people think I live in a cave and wear horns." Nobody thinks that, but few know that Miss McClatchy, 51, is one of the richest and most powerful newspaperwomen in the U.S. She is president of California's Sacramento...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Beehive | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

Last week Eleanor McClatchy's own doings were well worth reporting. With circulation of all three papers at new peaks, she has installed the Modesto staff in a new $850,000 building, with music in the city room, is putting the finishing touches on a $2,500,000 modern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Beehive | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

The Bees are still liberal and staunchly independent. They still crusade, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1935 for exposing political corruption in Nevada. Four years ago, the Sacramento Bee was largely responsible for passage of a lobby-control act after it exposed California's most notorious lobbyist, 300-lb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Beehive | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

Last week Dr. Herbert L. Everett of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station told about a frustrated petunia that remains forever virgin and so goes right on flowering. Dr. Everett crossed two widely different varieties of petunia. One of the offspring was sterile; the flowers had proper female ovules but no...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Frustrated Petunias | 11/26/1951 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Crab Compass | 10/22/1951 | See Source »

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