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Last Man Around the World-Philip Wiener...
...Street, Manhattan, the Little Casino Bar Restaurant at No. 206 was barely noticeable. Men & women came and went with a great air of having nothing to do but listen to the juke box playing soft German tunes. Richard Eichenlaub and his plump wife placidly drew beer, placidly dished out Wiener Schnitzel. One day early this week, Herr Eichenlaub suddenly disappeared...
...scientific laws of inheritance, which had their genesis in the Moravian sweet pea garden of pious Monk Gregor Mendel, are more & more often appealed to when sordid cases reach U. S. courts. Last week, in the Scientific Monthly, Dr. Alexander S. Wiener described the newest and safest tools of the courtroom geneticist...
...claim in heritances. As an index of heredity, facial resemblance is now deemed very unreliable. Eye color has scientific support but leaves too much room for reasonable judicial doubts. Fingerprints are only vaguely significant. Geneticists are fond of earlobe characteristics but do not yet understand their distribution patterns. Dr. Wiener declared that the most practical means of determining parentage can be found in the inheritance patterns of the four human blood groups. "It is a simple matter," says Dr. Wiener, "to ascertain what groups can occur in the children when the groups of the parents are known." Typical cases...
Wider use of blood tests is hindered by a lack of expert serologists and the fact that bumbling technicians have sometimes made errors. But expert Dr. Wiener in Manhattan recently settled a Colorado paternity case with blood chilled and shipped to him by plane. Dr. Wiener advised rich oldsters who anticipate inheritance squabbles to attach a blood-group analysis to their wills...