Word: wolffe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...FLANDERS FIELDS (308 pp.)-Leon Wolff-Viking...
...Marxists. Lifelong Communist Arthur Horner, bespectacled boss of the 730,000-man National Union of Mineworkers, phoned up the right-wing Daily Express to announce that he was "shocked and horrified" at this "needless folly." (He remains a Communist, apparently disturbed only by inept tactics.) In Scotland Mrs. Helen Wolff, sister of top British Communist John Gollan, quit the party in disgust. And to the surprise of one and all, the Very Rev. Hewlett Johnson, "Red Dean" of Canterbury, opened his eyes long enough to announce that "the Dean regrets the executions...
...Wolff can make guinea pig, monkey or cow embryos develop into monsters, but since the technique required with mammals is rather complicated, he now works almost entirely with hens' eggs. He cuts a hole in the shell and exposes the embryo, which in fresh-laid eggs is about as big as the head of a pin. Even at this early stage he knows what parts will develop into the head, wings or legs. By damaging the proper cells with a hair-thin beam of X rays, he can make the chick into a Cyclops. He can prevent wings from...
Three Heads to Order. To make a two-headed monster, Dr. Wolff lets the embryo develop normally for two or three days. Then he makes a microscopic slice in the part that will grow into the chick's head. Three-headed monsters can be made in this way. So can four-legged or four-winged chicks...
Most of the unnatural chicks live to the hatching point, and some of the simpler ones may live longer. But Dr. Wolff is not interested in raising circus attractions. The purpose of experimental teratology, he says, is to learn why and how monsters develop so that the processes can be reversed. Explains Dr.Wolff: "A train passes too quickly for us to find out anything about it while it is moving. To derail the train is a violent method, but this gives us a chance to study parts of the mechanism." He hopes that his tortured eggs will teach physicians...