Word: lobeless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only fascinating ears which Robert Carter Cook, editor of the Journal oj Heredity, fished out of the genetics grab bag. He also produced the ears of the Canright and Powell families. The ears of the Powells, starting with F. J. Powell, a retired merchant of West Lafayette, Ohio, are lobeless - i.e., the "lobes" are fastened to the skin of the neck. The ear lobes of Harry Lee Canright, onetime a medical missionary at Chengtu, China, and of his family are free. Dr. Canright's free-lobed daughter married lobeless Eugene F. Powell, zoologist son of the West Lafayette Powells...
When Zoologist Powell, who teaches in the University of Nebraska, realized that lobelessness was being bred out of his family, he started an investigation. He found that one of Mrs. Powell's brothers married a lobeless woman. All their children had lobes. Zoologist Powell's lobeless brother also married a lobeless woman. Their children had no ear lobes. Therefore, he reasoned, free ear lobes are dominant characters, adherent lobes are recessive, intermarriage eliminates lobeless ears...
After non-graduation from the University of Chicago and literary odd jobs in Chicago and Manhattan, Wescott went abroad to live and has been there off & on ever since, mostly in Villefranche or Paris. He is unmarried, slender, boyish-looking, with a long, smooth face, pointed, lobeless ears. He is fond of comic strips. Other books: The Apple of the Eye, Natives of the Rock, The Grandmothers, Goodbye Wisconsin, The Babe's Bed, Fear & Trembling (TIME...
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