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...Hermann Joseph Muller, at the University of Texas, using Drosophila (fruit flies), proved that X-rays also have profound genetic effects. Piercing the nucleus of a living cell, they can destroy or rearrange the genes which determine the inherited characteristics of all new life. But, observes Dr. Failla, "All living organisms are subjected to ionizing radiations throughout their life." Chief sources are 1) potassium, a mildly radioactive element found in all cells, 2) cosmic rays, which constantly penetrate each human being...
That Uncertain Feeling (United Artists). For most cinemakers, jokes about psychoanalysts and their patients are as dated as sugar daddies. For cigar-faced Director Ernst Lubitsch, they can form the nucleus of a whole amusing movie about well-cushioned life with the upper crust. He proves it by sending Merle Oberon, a healthy Park Avenue socialite, to consult a Dr. Vengard (Alan Mowbray) at the beginning of the picture. When she tells him there is nothing wrong with her, he says: "I'm sure you will feel differently when you leave this office." She does. Her happy marriage...
...Chairman of Federal Union, Inc. ("for UNION NOW of the U. S. A. and the Six British Democracies as the Nucleus of a World Government ... of, by, and for the people")-TIME, March...
...addition to the 100,000 already transferred without factory drafting. Specifically, he predicted that the "redundant" cotton-textile industry would furnish 50,000 workers, the woolen-textile industry 40,000. The proposal raised many carefully muffled objections from factory owners. How would the pools work? Wouldn't the "nucleus" factories have a decided jump on the others when peace came? Wasn't it all Fascistic? But the average Briton-on-the-street was encouraged. Though he may have no detailed notions on the subject of public v. private control, he is fervently committed to the idea that private...
...whose No. 1 bank, the Continental Illinois (chairman: Jonesman Walter Cummings), is almost a Jones colony (TIME, Nov. 27, 1939). One of the juiciest plums in town is the $35,000-a-year presidency of Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, which fell vacant last month. Jesse already had the nucleus of a good organization built around Cummings (a Reserve Bank director) and First Vice President Howard Payne Preston, an RFC alumnus. For president he wanted his present RFC head, Emil Schram...