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...Very Good." The chief of staff's normally impeccable office had become a frowsy litter of coffee cups, cigarette butts, carbines and musette bags...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: Help Seemed Far Away . | 7/10/1950 | See Source »

Fish Story. Off Brielle, N.J., Sigmund Scharf caught 14 sharks with one hook by hauling in a six-foot brown shark which later produced a litter of 13 in the boat's cockpit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 12, 1950 | 6/12/1950 | See Source »

...been trained to ignore light and noise, they were put in pens built to resemble such favorite rat hangouts as kitchens or corncribs. There, in front of the cameras, they performed their normal dramas of robbery, love and cannibalism. Rat mothers suckled their young, and sometimes ate the whole litter. Dainty rats groomed themselves, often dipping their paws in water. Male rats fought over food or mates. Females fought off male advances. (Public Healthman Sidney P. Lanier,* head of the project, says that female rats never yield without a desperate battle against larger or multiple suitors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A Peek at Peekers | 5/8/1950 | See Source »

...Everything went off fine," said the Duchess, dropping wearily into a chair at the end of the first week. "The people behaved wonderfully. They left hardly any litter. But I still think," she confessed, "that the best place to live is an electrically run cottage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Tea with the Duke | 4/17/1950 | See Source »

Nonetheless, the four hybrid bears were paired off. Last month the two couples confounded the experts by producing a litter each. One cub lived, nursed from an Evenflow bottle on a diet of Esbilac (a Borden animal formula). Last week he weighed more than five pounds and was starting to open his eyes. Washington's Zoomen named him Gene, just to needle the geneticists. They watched him with pride and hope and designs on his chromosomes. If Gene proves fertile, he could be the Adam of a wholly new race of bears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A Bear Named Gene | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

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