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...bite, I eat, I am not tame...
...Ithaca, N.Y., last week Cornell Entomologist William E. Blauvelt announced the development of a unique insecticide designed for flowers alone. The soil around a plant is soaked with a mixture of sodium selenate and water, which penetrates to roots, sap, foliage and buds. Then, says Dr. Blauvelt, "the bug bites the plants and the plants bite back...
...goings on in Thurber's deceptively casual cartoons range, from the neurasthenic to the pathological. But, like a psychic distorting mirror, they reflect reality-well-locked in the subconscious though it may be. Little boys bite little girls; men hear seals barking in the middle of the night; shapeless women spring into rooms crying, "I come from haunts of coot and hern." Doctors abandon restraint ("You're not my patient, you're my meat, Mrs. Quist...
Sally Rand, titillating terpsichorean, whose art consists of publicly manipulating two outsized feather fans, wriggled out of a $150,747 damage suit. She said she had a right to "some privacy," hence a right to bite and scratch two would-be photographers who had clicked a shutter at a slow-moving fan. A California court agreed...
Last week, TACA's square-jawed President Lowell Yerex gave bite for bite, came up with a new permit to operate in Colombia. TACA de Colombia will be a TACA affiliate, owned 45% by the parent company and 55% by Colombians. Operating in the pack-mule fashion that made it in 1942 the world's No. 1 freight flyer, the Yerex airline will pit two Douglas DC-2½s (DC-2s with DC-3 wings, double doors and reinforced bottoms) and a twin-engine Beechcraft against Pan Am's deluxe equipment. If it needs more money...