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...Also, long before lightweight protons or "positrons" were experimentally observed by Caltech's Dr. Carl David Anderson (TIME, March 6), Dr. Dirac had declared such particles to be required by mathematical necessity. But this shy, angular youngster with small Wack eyes and small black mustache, already a big frog in the subatomic puddle, made his biggest splash three years ago when he declared the universe was a sea of negative electricity. Thus the nuclear protons of atoms were simply holes in the surrounding electronic field; matter was a honeycomb of nothingness in electrical space, and the traditional picture...
...Morgan at Bryn Mawr College (1891-1904) and Columbia University (1904-28) was one of the pioneers in chromosome study. In fact he hopped to scholarly repute from a frog's egg. Man has 24 chromosomes in his germ cells, the fruit fly 4. Dr. Morgan picked the fruit fly as most convenient for the study of inheritance. The fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) produces 25 generations a year, which is about as many as man produces in 500 years...
Calling the green Battle Ringers contemptuously Frösche ("frogs"),* Nazi brownshirts padlocked their headquarters, carried off "Frog" Herbert von Bismarck for a night of grilling questions. Ironically the presses of Frog Chief Dr. Alfred Hugenberg. the Fatherland's newspaper tycoon who made World news fortnight ago by demanding the return to Germany of her pre-War colonies by the London Conference (see p. 17). were obliged to print with an approving tone last week that "The Chancellor received Dr. Hugenberg tonight with no others present and explained to him the reasons for the Battle Ring's suppression...
Next week Producer Aborn will present The Yeomen of the Guard, a more serious Gilbert & Sullivan operetta not often revived. If he does as well as he used to do, Frank Moulan will get in some heavy dramatic licks as the gleeman with the croak of a frog-o. Of the present production it may be said, with the chorus...
...their god, King Kong. Presently the producer and his associates catch their first glimpse of King Kong. He is a gigantic whatnot resembling an ape, 50 feet tall, equipped with large teeth and a thunderous snarl. He picks up Fay Wray in one hand as though she were a frog and shuffles off through the jungle, breaking trees and grunting...