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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ostensibly they were calls to employment, but there is no Empire theatre in Whitby or in Whitehaven. And the initials of the names in the first ad spell "Heil Hitler." The second can be read, "Germany will...
Switzerland last week furnished the first notable spy trial of World War II. A brunette dancer called Nina (real name: Virginia Capt Rota), arrested at the frontier as she sought to enter France last month, was found guilty of possessing Swiss anti-aircraft defense secrets. She was supposedly to deliver them by roundabout route to Italy. She was sentenced to five years in jail. With her were convicted Roger Joël, former draftsman in a Swiss arms plant; Paul Rochat, a Geneva detective, and Rochat's wife Dolly. In jail, Dancer Nina hunger-struck and tried suicide (wrist...
...Kiel Canal, and A. McPherson, who scouted for it; T. M. Wetherall Smith and John Barrett, who landed in heavy seas to rescue the crew of the torpedoed Kensington Court. To Sergeant Pilot W. E. Willits, who brought his ship out of a dive and landed it after the first pilot had been killed by a bullet, the King gave the Distinguished Flying Medal (for non-Commissioned officers). Eldest of the medalists was 26, youngest...
...scientist who tricks Nature-for sound scientific reasons-is bushy-thatched Dr. Gregory Goodwin Pincus, formerly of Harvard, now of Clark University (Worcester, Mass.) Some years ago Dr. Pincus accomplished the first fertilization of mammalian ova in vitro-a polite way of saying that conception took place in a glass vessel. He took ova from a doe rabbit, sperm from a buck, mixed them in a culture flask, implanted the fertilized ova in another doe which, at term, produced a fine litter (TIME, March 12, 1934). Since then the scientist has been able, by skillful coddling, to keep fertilized...
...will be male; if not, female. Since there was no spermatozoon in the case of the fatherless rabbit, therefore no male-determining pattern, the Pincus rabbit is a female. She seems to be perfectly normal. Mated to an ordinary buck, she produced a normal litter. These bunnies are the first in rabbit history with no maternal grandfather...