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Strange Fruit. In Lindsborg, Kansas, Anna Dahlsten's "geranium" plant bore two whopping tomatoes...
Wyatt's bold plan, which bore the President's enthusiastic approval, called for an enormous expansion of the nation's building industry, for the recruiting and training of an army of 1,500,000 new workers in the building trades. It also proposed a means of making this vast, dislocating effort acceptable to labor and industry. Borrowing from the techniques of war, Wyatt asked Congress for $600,000,000 to be used in underwriting the risks of expansion and plant conversion, in assuring overtime wages when necessary, in raising wage levels in low-pay industries...
...Winter's Tale (by William Shakespeare; produced by The Theatre Guild) dates from that final period of Shakespeare's when reality-even real people-had seemingly begun to bore him. His plays became such stuff as dreams are made on-fantastic, capricious, inconsecutive, at times nightmarish. Shakespeare's brain begot such villains and monsters as Iachimo in Cymbeline, Caliban in The Tempest, Leontes in The Winter's Tale. But terror and tragedy took shape only to melt away at last in benign late-afternoon sunlight...
First, there was a delicate operation to transplant the ovaries of female embryos into grown-up female mice. The embryo ovaries grew and developed. When the host-mothers were mated, the grafted ovaries produced healthy young which bore no genetic resemblance to the host-mothers. This process might be repeated indefinitely, said Dr. Russell, producing mice with any given number of unborn female ancestors...
...waiters could not forget that they had once been gentlefolk. Next came the people who had laughed loudest at the White Russians, the fugitives from Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. Then in a swamping human surf came the fugitives from Spain. Czechoslovakia, the Low Countries, France. All of them bore, like a leper's bell, the one ineffaceable possession left them by their ordeal-the mood of quiet desperation, quiet, because its very existence threatened the peace of mind of those who still felt secure; quiet, because who can really convey an experience to one who has not suffered...