Word: mice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pumpkin got bruised, the white mice grew too fast and had to be replaced, and the director did not dare use a real coach-and-four because Cinderella and most others in the cast were afraid of horses. Otherwise, rehearsals were proceeding pleasantly in a big Manhattan TV studio where Broadway Showmakers Rodgers and Hammerstein and a cast of stars are preparing a lavish musical version of Cinderella. For a close peek at how a TV spectacular is put together, see TV & RADIO, Rear View...
...struggled over a balky bit of dialogue, the rest of the cast, chorus and crew quit rehearsal for a break. Cigarettes glowed. Wax paper from sandwiches rustled on bare metal chairs. A percolator murmured on a hot plate next to a pile of coffee-stained script books. Six white mice napped in a bird cage in the temporary quiet of Cinderella's kitchen. "They've grown so fast during rehearsal," a prop man said, "that we'll have to get new ones for the show." A bruised plaster pumpkin sat in front of flat...
...evidence was highly suggestive, but it fell short of proof that there was anything in cigarette smoke to cause cancer. Graham and Wynder (now of Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute) went to work again. With tar from machine-smoked cigarettes they produced cancers on the backs of mice. In 1951 Dr. Graham quit smoking. That same year he retired...
...treated monkeys and any possible application to humans. Working on another AEC project, Overman is testing the effect of bone marrow injections on radiation damage. High doses of radiation disrupt the normal production of blood elements, causing dangerous anemia and other side effects. Using a technique first developed on mice, Overman has saved monkeys after exposure to normally lethal radiation (700 roentgens) by injections of bone marrow from nonirradiated monkeys...
Through her study of antigens, Suzanne Brown, 16, is trying to develop in mice an immunity to the irritation of mosquito bites. Other students are studying the tolerance of fresh-water fish for salt, the effect of light on the fighting mood of chameleons, and ways to induce toads to lay their eggs out of season. One boy, having noticed that some dead fish do not pollute the water in tanks that contain a certain type of algae, now thinks he is on the road to a discovery. "I know there is an antibiotic property in the algae," says...