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Laugh if you will, call it going back to the womb--Vag was born in Cambridge--but the fact is that Vag depended on it. He had lived in the vicinity of Cambridge and Boston ever since he could remember and had never thought very seriously of leaving...
First case so reported was that of a Mrs. McK., whose red cells were 60% type O and 40% type A (TIME, July 20, 1953). It seemed clear that she had derived them in the womb from a twin brother, but medical detectives could get only circumstantial evidence because the brother died in infancy. Now, in the British Medical Journal, research teams report two cases with both twins alive...
...rest of the issue is at the usual level: proficiency tempered by ennui. This seems all too natural in a magazine which insists on emphasizing the womb-like quality of undergraduate literature by referring to itself as "Mother Advocate...
...gambit to inveigle readers as far as page 3-devoted a banner head and five columns to tax stories, including tips on evasion of state taxes by Columnist Jack Mabley and a dispatch from London, where Editor Walters, on tour, was busily exposing Lord Beveridge and Britain's womb-to-tomb social-security system...
...projects for big corporations-General Motors, International Business Machines, T.W.A., etc.-has kept up furniture as a sideline ever since he designed his first piece (a bed for himself) at 16. He was co-winner of the Museum of Modern Art's Organic Design competition in 1941; his "Womb Chair," designed in 1946, remains one of the bestselling modern chairs ever made...