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What made the little critter (Geomys bursarius) so fascinating to Scientist Hisaw was the nature of its pregnancy. To get around in its narrow burrows the animal has to have narrow hips, and its pubic bones are compressed, leaving an opening too small to let a female deliver its young. But millions of pocket-gopher squeals testify that the female can deliver. In 1925 Dr. Hisaw discovered how: during pregnancy the female pocket gopher secretes a hormone that causes part of the pubic bones to dissolve, leaving a wider opening. Hisaw named the hormone "relaxin" (TIME, April...
Herman Melville was in hock to his publishers and out of favor with his pubic. Moby Dick had provoked mixed reviews; its successor, Pierre, got savage ones. His readers wanted him to spin more of his early, popular South Sea romances such as Typee and Omoo. Exhausted and distraught, Melville developed neurotic mental tics and jumpy relatives made tentative moves to have him declared insane. His wife was soon to voice her special qualms in a letter to her mother: "Herman has taken to writing poetry. You need not tell anyone, for you know how such things get around...
...entire project is being directed by Dean Edward S. Mason of the School of Public Administration and his chief aide, David E. Bell, a former economic adviser to ex-President Truman. It calls for a group of six economists, one engineer, and one expert in pubic administration to spend a period of 18 months in Pakistan on a full time basis teaching the Pakistanis how best to spend their money and furnishing technical information to them...
...children who would gladly sell their mothers. He dwells for part of a chapter on a street peopled with twisted female dwarfs, who fed, he asserts gleefully, on the unnatural lusts of the American ranks. Another chapter is concerned with a visit to a shop that sells blonde merkins (pubic wigs). U.S. Negro soldiers, Malaparte explains, like blondes...
...fast as he could paint them. Last week the first full-dress U.S. exhibition of his buff-bare ladies was on display at a Manhattan gallery, sponsored by well-clothed U.N. General Assembly President (and Belgian Foreign Minister) Paul-Henri Spaak. By careful culling, the show bared no pubic hairs, was guaranteed not to rouse the same censorship problems that harried Delvaux's recently imported painting, Temptation of St. Anthony (TIME, Sept...