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...bottom of Long Island Sound, close to Manhattan Island, sea-exploring Dr. William Beebe last week slapped at a wayward fish, caught a clam and a starfish, without getting his trousers wet by the cold, filthy water. A new-type, little submarine demonstrated for the first time by Simon Lake, submarine pioneer, enabled Dr. Beebe to make his gesture...
...made in Peiping and about 20 of his well-known portrait heads: Dancer Martha Graham, Mystic Nicholas Konstantin Roerich. Authors John Erskine and Thornton Niven Wilder, Mexican Muralist Jose Clemente Orozco. Left out of the California exhibition is the newest Noguchi, a great white plaster shape something like a starfish and something like a woman which he has named "Miss Expanding Universe...
...Peter. He keeps a quarter of a mile distant from him whenever they walk the road to town. One day he catches up with his brother-a bull is kneeling on his crushed chest. The shock of Peter's death awakens the ulcer in Fergus' stomach, its starfish of pain begins to spread. He takes some drink to ease it, dies dreaming of dead friends and the sea. The Author. Englishman Leonard Alfred George Strong's first literary effort was a Chaucerian ballad about a sow named, after his grandmother, Amelia. This attracted his family...
...certain of what his crop will be, the oyster-man's reward is always doubtful. Thus last week the oystermen of Bivalve roundly cursed the fact that they have had little rain, that the brackish water needed for oysters was a little too salty, and hence inviting to starfish. No enemy so annoys the oyster as the starfish which, unintelligent in many matters, is smart enough to clutch the bivalve in a deathly grip and tug until Ostrea Virginica in a moment of exhausted abandon opens his shell and allows himself to glide into the starfish's protuberant...
...single egg. Thus they parallel as quadruplets the conditions of human identical twins. Exactly what causes the egg to divide is not definitely known. Dr. Horatio H. Newman, zoologist at the University of Chicago, has patiently pursued simpler species in the hope of finding a clue. After sacrificing several starfish he has shown twinning among echinoderms to be caused by retardation of development in the egg. Whether this is true of the human ovum remains to be proved. What is true is that identical twins are the closest approximation to different human beings with exactly the same heredity. They form...