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...administering such drugs as Clomid and Pergonal, which can result in the development of more than one egg at a time. By using hormonal stimulants, Howard Jones "harvests" an average of 5.8 eggs per patient; it is possible to obtain as many as 17. "I felt like a pumpkin ready to burst," recalls Loretto Leyland, 33, of Melbourne, who produced eleven eggs at an Australian clinic, one of which became her daughter...
...Annie is fine except for a slight learning disability," one mother wrote. "Charlie was stuffing Cracker Jacks up his nose today with Carey Allen's assistance. They tried shaving a couple of months ago. Between the school's Halloween carnival (chairmanship, of course), a pumpkin pie in the oven and the twins, here is a very big thank you. I am selfish, I certainly swear, and we sure laugh a lot!" -By John Skow. Reported by William McWhirter/Phoenix
...Mass, Ave., 1726 Mass, Ave.): the legend has it that the place was named after two burns, but the ice cream here is anything but down-at-the-heels. A serious contender for die-hard's scream fans, E & B ofters flavors more exotic, than most: Midori (melon liqueur), Pumpkin, and Chocolate Moose are but a few, If you and your roommates are absolutely, insanely insatiable, go for an Emack Attack--24 scoops with almost as many toppings. Cahaly's Dairy Kitchen (47 Mt. Auburn St.): An institution, without a doubt. With cozy tables in a chic part...
...chill December night in 1948, Whittaker Chambers led two investigators from the House Committee on Un-American Activities into a pumpkin patch on his Maryland farm. From inside a hollowed-out pumpkin he produced several rolls of microfilm: copies of secret Government documents that, he claimed, had been passed to him in the 1930s by a State Department official named Alger Hiss, when both men were members of a Soviet espionage ring...
...courtroom almost 18 months later, when Hiss-who denied all charges and has continued to do so to this day-was convicted at a second trial for perjury. (His first trial ended in a hung jury.) The intervening events make compelling drama: the discovery of the "pumpkin papers"; the search for the Hisses' old Woodstock typewriter, allegedly used to retype the secret documents; the investigation into a homosexual phase in Chambers' past; the charges and denials, the courtroom theatrics and, as ever, the uncertainties...