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Buzzing for a Barrister. In Britain, 1950's spring lined up to the world's best advertised standards. Daffodils on the hill sides, primroses in the hedges, a new bear cub at the London Zoo and a burgeoning of anxiety (in very British guise) in the London Times advertisements. "Unidentified continuous vibratory noise in the atmosphere," wrote an elderly barrister. "Will those who have heard this please write...
...success. The official voice of the church, the News is run by Editor and General Manager Mark Edward Petersen, 49, who is also one of the Twelve Apostles (a high governing body) of the Mormon Church. A lean, intense and handsome man, Petersen started out as a News cub at 20 and is still very much a newsman; his staffers' call him "Mark," instead of "Brother," as is customary with other high church dignitaries. Obedient to the Mormon "Word of Wisdom" no News staffer smokes or drinks alcohol, tea or coffee at the News, though it employs some...
...their wild state, polar bears and Alaskan brown bears do not mate. For one thing, polar bears live on arctic ice, brown bears on solid ground. They also belong to different species. So when a male polar bear cub named Snow White and a female brown bear cub named Ramona were put together in a cage at the Washington Zoo more than ten years ago, the animal experts did not expect much to happen...
Nonetheless, the four hybrid bears were paired off. Last month the two couples confounded the experts by producing a litter each. One cub lived, nursed from an Evenflow bottle on a diet of Esbilac (a Borden animal formula). Last week he weighed more than five pounds and was starting to open his eyes. Washington's Zoomen named him Gene, just to needle the geneticists. They watched him with pride and hope and designs on his chromosomes. If Gene proves fertile, he could be the Adam of a wholly new race of bears...
Just Riding By. However other newsmen may question Paul Presbrey's news-at-any-price philosophy, they agree that he has been uniquely consistent in following it. In 1936, when Presbrey was a 26-year-old cub on the old St. Paul Daily...