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...their laying season, domesticated hen ostriches lay one or two eggs a week. In Detroit's zoo one day last week, an ostrich named Queenie deposited two three-pound eggs within 30 minutes. Zoologists marveled, pronounced binovulation a condition exceedingly rare in ostriches. Said Zookeeper John W. Ireland: "I never heard of such a thing...
Brodeur Kahn first attracted public attention with a hen's egg known as "Strasbourg" which he sent to the 1925 Exposition des Arts Decoratifs. After drilling 1,634 holes in the shell, he embroidered a view of the city on it. He broke 23 eggs before he completed "Strasbourg." Sometimes the shells gave way after he had drilled 1,200 or 1,500 holes, but Nephtalie Kahn never lost his temper. In all he has embroidered 26 eggs. Some of his better known pieces are the ostrich series, showing a butterfly, the salamander of Francois I. and a Gallic...
...almost the exact centre of the human head, hanging from the base of the brain by a hollow stem, is the pituitary gland. Normally about the size of a large pea, in giants it may be as big as a hen's egg. It has two lobes, anterior & posterior. Like other endocrine glands it secretes hormones (exciters) into the blood. Doctors know less than they would like to know about the pituitary gland. They know it is intimately related to growth and sexual maturity; they believe its hormones regulate the functioning of all the other endocrines. Last week came...
Because a giant had stolen their inheritance (a bag of gold, a hen which laid golden eggs on command, a magical harp) Jack and his mother had to live in a hovel, had finally to resort to selling their faithful cow. A lesser cow would have ambled placidly off to the butcher but the Erskine cow, like the Erskine Helen, had spirit...
...Jack was human and properly awed by appearances. He waited until the giant was asleep to steal the gold and the hen which spilled forth eggs before the audience's very eyes. He used more wit to get the harp, coaxed the giant into making it play some of Gruenberg's jazz, a love song which made the giant fairly maudlin, a lullaby which did the trick. Down the beanstalk scuttled Jack followed by the giant who, being only rubber and hot air, burst and fell in a deflated mass. The witch by this time was a beautiful...