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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Memorial Laboratory at Bar Harbor, Me., was gutted by forest fire three weeks ago (TIME, Nov. 3), some 90,000 pedigreed breeding mice were caught in the flames. They represented 30 carefully bred strains, each with special qualities. Some were valuable because they were susceptible to polio, others were prone to nervous crises. Certain yellow mice (which grow fat with age) were used in the study of fatty (liposarcoma) cancers. Certain long-cherished strains were used in educational institutions all over the country to illustrate the Mendelian laws of inheritance...
...Young man on the right, my Young readers," and the Sage of the Age, and a very Young age it is too, "is Leeward Skreindler, Young Dartmouth politics, cheerleader, and vendor of hand-painted ties. When not practicing the old locomotive, Skreindler is prone to wend his way upward on the political ladder two, Youngs at a time...
Britain was struggling in the economic pit. France was stumbling toward it. Germany lay almost prone in it. China staggered on with no one to lend a helping hand...
Turnstile Sociology. Jackie's daring on the baselines has been matched by shrewd Branch Rickey's daring on the color line. Rickey gave Robinson his chance. As boss of the Brooklyn Dodgers, Rickey is a mixture of Phineas T. Barnum and Billy Sunday, who is prone to talk piously of the larger and higher implications of what he is doing. There were large implications, of course, in signing Jackie Robinson, but the influence on the box office was a lot easier to figure. Jackie Robinson has pulled about $150,000 in extra admissions this season...
...asks about. Headmaster Neill is convinced that guilt connected with masturbation is at the root of most "antisocial" children's disturbances. Says Neill: "Free'dom in masturbation means glad, happy, eager children who are not much interested in masturbation. A masturbation Verbot means miserable, unhappy children, often prone to colds and epidemics, hating themselves and consequently hating others. I say that the happiness and cleverness of Summerhill children is due to the removal of the bogey of fear and self-hate that such Verbots give...