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Died. Bernard Ralph Maybeck, 95, pioneer modern architect, "grandfather of the California style," designer of the Palace of Fine Arts for San Francisco's 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition; in Berkeley, Calif. Some 5 ft. small, his head ever topped, outdoors or in, with a knitted tam-o'-shanter, his gnomelike beard imitating Santa Claus, Maybeck was one of the first to design walls of glass, one of the first practitioners of "open planning" to allow for expansion, invented (in 1890s) the kitchen-dining-living-room combination...
...this is quite a trick, but Dr. Gordon accomplished it while working at the University of California in Berkeley. The two kinds of rabbit sperm cells look exactly alike, but there is nevertheless a slight difference between them. Dr. Gordon believes that the protein that coats them may not be identical. At any rate, the X and Y sperms behave differently when a gentle electric current is passed through a solution in which they are suspended. Under favorable circumstances, the X (female) sperms move toward the positive anode, and the Y (male) sperms move toward the negative cathode...
...alarm clock to wake us up at various points." Speaking of non-Roman Catholic denominations, he said: "With all respect to them ... all the identity discs in heaven are marked RC." His most widely quoted witticism is also one of the most famed Limericks in the language, kidding Bishop Berkeley's doctrine that things exist only when observed...
...GINZBURG Berkeley, Calif...
...than any other great city." But few people seem to care. While sky highways are built over much of the North End, and a parking lot will some day burrow underneath the Common, the middle mostly gathers years. When the Museum of Natural History left its ancient quarters by Berkeley Street, the building wasn't destroyed as it should have been; Bonwit-Teller's came, with curtains, and the building looks even older yet. Lacking high buildings, long vistas, and straight or numbered streets, Boston boasts cow tunnels along with as dirty a jail and as complicated a city government...