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Fresh v. Powdered. Dr. Niehans experimented (often on himself) with cell extracts from various organs and glands of several young animals, eventually hit on the unborn Iamb (from a ewe slaughtered just before it is due to deliver) as the best source for most purposes. To ensure a steady supply of fresh, uncontaminated material, he has a veterinarian choose the animals and supervise slaughtering. Of his $120 minimum fee for a single injection, most goes for the raw material, he says, leaving him $30. For aged or debilitated patients, and for doctors elsewhere who want to use the method, Rhein...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Healing Lamb | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

...sapphire) in her guise of Russia's Empress Catherine the Great. Also gone regal was Metropolitan Opera Soprano Maria Meneghini Callas, playing her greatest nonsinging role as Hatshepsut, an 18th Dynasty Queen of Egypt. Prattled Columnist Maxwell just before the ball: "Maria and I, gentle as ewe lambs, will be side by side in the Parade of Empresses. What an amusing ending to one of my greatest 'feuds.' "* ··· A Paris court ruled that the public sale of an unexpurgated, 28-volume set of the complete works of the Marquis de Sade (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 21, 1957 | 1/21/1957 | See Source »

...three scientists - R. L. W. Averill, C. E. Adams and L. E. A. Rowson -flushed out newly fertilized ova from the Fallopian tubes of freshly killed pregnant ewes. Then they transplanted the tiny ova to the reproductive tracts of seven female rabbits which had been mated previously with sterilized males to activate their hormone systems. Five days later, the rabbits were killed and the sheep eggs taken out in surgery. The ova had grown as in any pregnancy. Two of the best-developed eggs were replanted in a nonpregnant ewe; 16 days later, the scientists found that the twice-switched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ova Transfer | 8/1/1955 | See Source »

...that he is not a professional cook, but an actor who can ad lib and keep guest cooks laughing. Another NBC cook, this one a past master, felt obligated on one Home show from New York to fight a duel with skewers of shish kebab while singing I Love Ewe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Cooking for the Camera | 5/30/1955 | See Source »

...would mean disqualification) and guided only rarely by whistles, calls or hand signals from Allen, Rock outstared, outflanked and outsmarted the flock around the course. He drove them through null gates set up in right and left field, losing two points for failing to usher a stray ewe through one gate. Finally, Rock worked them all over to a small pen which Allen had opened. Glaring fiercely, the dog got four sheep to back slowly inside. However, a rebellious old ewe charged at Rock. Without even "popping his jaws" (snapping with feigned ferocity) or guiding her by the ear ("gripping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Hypnotic Dog | 8/31/1953 | See Source »

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