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...closer. I don't like him well enough." They then strolled down the boardwalk to pledge loud co-operation in cocktails. Roared Miss Slye, 57, wagging a finger: "Clarence Cook Little, you're a big handsome numskull." Roared Dr. Little, 48: "You're not a geneticist, Maude Slye." Cancer Detector- Dr. Walter Schiller of the University of Vienna, offered a simple new way of determining whether or not a woman has cancer of the cervix...
...Seeing Eye," Mrs. Eustis told the Institute last week, grew out of a breeding station for German shepherd dogs which she established in 1923 at Fortunate Fields, her comfortable estate near Vevey, Switzerland. At first, as a hobby, Mrs. Eustis and her friend,, Geneticist Elliott S. Humphrey, bred and trained dogs to patrol the Swiss borders for the customs office and the State police. So impressed was Mrs. Eustis by the "teachability" of German shepherds that in 1928 she wrote an article about her smart dogs for Saturday Evening Post, mentioned the fact that shepherds every day led several thousand...
First and hardest job of "The Seeing Eye" is to train teachers. Only eight of the school's original 25 hand-picked candidates have so far survived the three-year course given by Geneticist Humphrey, who used to break wild horses at the Kansas City Stockyards. At the school's farm near Morristown, Mr. Humphrey and his staff keep prospective instructors following the dogs blindfolded for a month. From that point on the course becomes progressively more difficult. Most candidates, says Mr. Humphrey, have too little patience...
...longtime protégé of Nobel Prizeman Thomas Hunt Morgan and now a famed geneticist in his own right, Dr. Calvin Blackman Bridges of Carnegie Institution of Washington breeds thousands of fruit flies in glass jars, studies their variations and heredity mechanisms under the microscope. Dr. Bridges knows a great deal about genes, the infinitesimal control switches of heredity, and he has detected in the chromosomes of his little insects patterns that may consist of the genes themselves (TIME, March 9). In Los Angeles last week photographers snapped the biologist standing beside a strange three-wheeled automobile. Designer...
Newshawks discovered that for months, when he got tired of looking at fruit flies, the geneticist had retired to a garage, put on a greasy jumper and worked on his car far into the night, hammering, welding, machining parts on a lathe. Now & then, the foreman reported, Dr. Bridges hit his thumb with a hammer. Once he had to visit a hospital to have removed some tiny bits of steel which flew into his eyes. It was Calvin Bridges' splendid eyesight which first attracted Dr. Morgan's interest in him when Bridges was a shaggy, enthusiastic student...