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Twenty minutes later the membrane became thinner at one point, and two gobs of yellowish jelly ("polar bodies") were pushed out. Then the cell became furrowed, but cell division did not actually take place, and the egg was kept alive for only eight hours...
...which matted, making a tough, pliant membrane. This phenomenon, though familiar in organic substances, was not previously known to occur in minerals such as clay.* Dr. Hauser's theory is that the bentonite clay particles are electrically charged, and so line up end to end in chains by polar attraction...
Hell on Ice (Sun. 8 p.m. CBS). Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre dramatizes Commander Edward Ellsberg's blood-curdling story of the polar expedition of the Jeannette...
Another witness was Julius Richard ("Dixie") Davis, the racket's smooth young mouthpiece, whose career at the bar, a polar opposite to that of 36-year-old Thomas Edmund Dewey, was fully as precocious. Having turned State's evidence in hope of saving his hide, Davis answered most Dewey questions with a bright "That's right." He described his association with the racket's murdered boss, Arthur ("Dutch Schultz") Flegenheimer, and with Jimmy Hines. At 27. said Dixie, he had five lawyers working for him and paid $7,500 a year in office rent. He described...
...Paris, Joseph Pacreau, 34, was visiting the polar bears in the Vincennes Zoo. Because there are no bars in the Zoo, only way to see the polar bears is to peer into their pool from a steep rock bank high enough so no bear can stand on its hind legs and claw the customers. While Joseph Pacreau peered, one bear heaved itself awkwardly on to the back of another bear, got hold of Joseph Pacreau's arm, hung on till a keeper arrived and rapped it smartly on the nose...