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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Down the ball from the mice and monkeys is a room full of moth pupas, with their brains cut out. The pupa is the animal inside a cocoon; and Assistant Professor Carroll M. Williams has found that it will live indefinitely but not grow when its brain is removed. He has kept pupas for months in animated suspension and then put their brains back, and they started growing where they left...

Author: By John J. Sack, | Title: Biologists Regulate Rats in Research Lab | 6/15/1949 | See Source »

...least he will get plenty of advice. The Daily News's John Chapman spoke for the other critics: "Man and boy, I've been telling Johnson and [Giulio] Gatti-Casazza before him how to run the opera house, and you don't think I'm going to stop just because Bing is going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Man for the Met | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

...suits pending, Commissioner A. B. ("Happy") Chandler told the prodigals that all was forgiven. All 18 were reinstated to the clubs they played for three years ago. Said Lanier, eager to get back with the Cardinals, whom he was suing for $1,500,000: "I'm delighted . . . but I won't give up my original case against the people who tossed me out of baseball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: All Is Forgiven | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

...Named for Inventor John M. Van Heusen who, by weaving cloth in a curve, achieved a collar with a graceful "fold" line, avoiding the "gaps" that occur when a straight piece of cloth is bent into a circle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Revolution in Shirts? | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

Edward, My Son (M-G-M), starring Spencer Tracy, is an ambitious Hollywood effort to cash in on a British play which became a Broadway stage hit. Though it lacks the play's richest ingredient-the polished performance of British Actor and co-Playwright Robert Morley-it still makes a succulent emotional pudding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jun. 13, 1949 | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

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