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...laboratory in a cornfield outside Moscow, Lysenko gets every facility and encouragement. He goes right on trying to change nature in far-out ways by grafting pine branches on fir trees, injecting the blood of Plymouth Rock chickens into Buff Orpington hens, trying to turn wheat into rye. He complains righteously against Science Academy President Aleksandr Nesmeyanov (TIME cover, June 2, 1958) for criticizing his experiments. Says he pointedly: "I am infinitely happy that my modest work is highly prized by the party government and Nikita Khrushchev in person...
...recognized the car buff who told her: "About the car, change the oil and filter every 3,000 miles. Grease it every 1,000 miles." The advice about snow tires, having the wheel bearings packed, checking the muffler, was all familiar. The constant concern about John's mother and father reminded Connie of the close-knit family she had married into. "I know Dad and Mom are my best friends in the world along with you and your folks...
...resurrection is the work of David E. Archie, 35, an Iowa journalist and part-time history buff. Last year, poring over back copies of Harper's Weekly in search of picture material for The lowan, a bimonthly magazine that he publishes in Shenandoah, Archie decided that Harper's authentic record of the Civil War might bear repetition during the war's centennial years. When a test mailing drew an enthusiastic response, he was in business...
With a socio-philosophical turn of mind and a sometimes puckish, sometimes pawkish humor, Macdonald has also shown a scholar's doggedness in sifting a stupefying quantity of material, and in separating the living wit from the dead cats flung in literary battles long ago. The parody buff will find few representative favorites missing here (J. C. Squire is one). Macdonald was uplifted by his rediscovery of The Stuffed Owl (title taken from a wonderfully woeful Wordsworth poem of the same name), an Anthology of Bad Verse published in 1930. He was dispirited by the six-volume collection...
...booster, he promotes Dallas with almost as much zeal as he does his store, works on everything from the Chamber of Commerce to the Symphony Society. But he likes nothing better than discovering things to sell. Once when a woman asked for a dress in a certain shade of buff yellow she had seen in a painting, Marcus had a fabric dyed to order in New York, made up a dress specially for her for only $42. The next season Neiman's "buff yellow" was a bestseller and a fashion...