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...June 1940 famed Continental Actor Karlweis pretty much played Jacobowsky in real life. Karlweis was in Paris without a passport when the Nazis smashed toward it. He started south in his tiny Citroën. When "that old rat" Pétain took over, Karlweis plunged desperately on. Says he: "I was a very lucky man." Someone who had admired him in a movie helped him get a transit visa to Spain. From there another admirer helped get him to Portugal. Three months later he was in Manhattan...
First to Go In. The first Underwood in Korea (while it was still the Hermit Kingdom) was Grandfather Horace Grant Underwood, who went there as Korea's first Protestant missionary in 1885. Though Seoul was swarming with cholera (Koreans call it "the rat in the stomach disease") old Dr. Underwood used to stride about unscathed in his black buttoned-up coat and white tie. He was extremely proud of the fact that he was the only ordained Calvinist in the city. Later he married a medical missionary, Lillias Horton, who became physician to Korea's Queen Min. Soon...
...natal influence was in the news last week. At Los Angeles City College, Psychologists Johnette Dispense and Richard T. Hornbeck injected small doses of electrical current in the uterus of female rats, then tested the maze-running intelligence of their offspring against that of undosed rats with the same fathers. Result: when a mother rat got a dose of one milliampere from the cathode (negative pole), the odds were 383-to-1 that her litter would be superior in intelligence; a dose of two milliamperes had the opposite effect-the litter was inferior (61-to-1). Doses from the anode...
...Rats mislike loud noises, as many a laboratory worker knows. And a shrill noise may throw them into something like an epileptic fit. This elementary experiment has long served as an introduction to the study of fear. Last week, however, some very contradictory rat findings were reported in Science by a Johns Hopkins psychologist, William J. Griffiths...
News of the week: Company Baker is all agog over the drastic plan for reorganization of the NTS rat-race . . . it is rumored that everyone is moving ashore the first of the month, with the possible exception of Company Dog . . . they're telling around that most of the local mugs will be billeting at the Commander in a surprise merger with the Supply WAVES!!! . . . Now, pleeeaaasee don't quote me, pal, but I heard a fellow behind me in our first class this morning and he was bumpin' his gums, giving his gang the row-down . . . Oh, yeah...