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...professor has been accused of "agitating the mentality of his students;" Miss George claims that this is good, but the bishop is afraid. A scheme to bring pressure upon the bishop has been plotted by Miss George, and, as the results appear, she hovers over them like a mother hen. Here the important element of anxiety is overplayed...

Author: By Herbert S. Meyers, | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 12/17/1949 | See Source »

...handsome Shah (full title: His Imperial Majesty Mohamed Reza Pahlevi, Shahinshah of Iran), a lean, sad-eyed young (30) monarch, might have been born & bred for the guinea hen & champagne circuit. He was a bachelor (having divorced beauteous Princess Fawzia of Egypt in 1948), had a gratifyingly deferential way with the ladies, had a democratic fondness for crowds and machinery, and seemed genuinely moved by his reception...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Coast to Coast on a Red Carpet | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

...Leon T. Atlas of the U.S. Public Health Service has been so sure of it that since 1947 he has been growing a sub-microscopic bug that seemed to be the guilty party. At Bethesda, Md. he nurtured his virus first in the noses of willing victims, then in hen's eggs. The strain, known as MRI, be came the world's No. 1 biological curiosity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Case of the Vanishing Virus | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...Easter time in 1884, the Czarina received what at first glance looked like an ordinary hen's egg, but the shell beneath its white enamel was of gold. Inside it was a golden yolk, and inside that a golden chick. In the chick's stomach was a model of the imperial crown, and inside the crown was a tiny ruby egg. It went over big. "Next Easter," the Czar informed Fabergé, "we'll be wanting another surprise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Imperial Eggs | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...when Wallace finally got his hybrid, it started laying eggs earlier in the season than other breeds, laid larger eggs and more of them. In test runs sponsored by Iowa State College, four flocks of his hybrids netted an egg profit of $3.88 a hen a year, while other leading breeds brought in only 70? to $1.44 a bird. Average production of the hybrids was 247 eggs per chicken while none of the others broke through the 200 mark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Revolution in Chickens? | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

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