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Bang & Flashes. But brilliant as he was, Scientist Wood was always a very odd sort of professor. Cooped up in his cluttered laboratory, he would often forget to come to class, and his students were forever having to fetch him ("Oh, yes, yes," he would say, "but just give me a few more minutes here, will you?"). When he did come to class, his lectures were usually a series of explosions, tricks and flashing lights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Great Experimenter | 12/24/1951 | See Source »

...Washington's rainswept Snoqualmie River valley. The first pheasant dropped behind the dog. The second, whirring off into the mist, wheeled at the shot and fell into the brush to one side. The third was brought down just across the river. Then the handler issued a sharp command: "Fetch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Top Dog | 12/10/1951 | See Source »

...doctors' orders. The official press had already announced that she would soon submit to an operation-the first hint that she was suffering from more than anemia. At week's end it was reported that one of Evita's doctors had flown to New York to fetch the specialist who would perform the operation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Evita Reappears | 10/29/1951 | See Source »

...Department of Agriculture once advised chicken raisers to dose broiler pullets with the synthetic hormone stilbestrol. The drug stops the growth of ovaries in pullets, turns them into the fat, tender female equivalent of capons, which fetch a premium price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Case of the Barren Mink | 2/19/1951 | See Source »

...Arthur Sullivan; produced by the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company) ushers in yet another D'Oyly Carte visit to Broadway. In a sense, it is always the same visit, as full of tradition and ritual as though the visiting players were visiting royalty. It even seems to fetch the same audiences of devotees. The extravaganzas that once turned Victorian sanity upside down today seem one of the few things still on their feet. Titipu still flourishes, Barataria still stands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Old Musical in Manhattan | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

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