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...blast on the hallowed grounds at Lord's-the Marylebone Club playing teams from the Army, R.A.F., the Fire Brigade, etc. And at Newmarket, 70 miles from London, 50,000 Britons, disregarding the Government's "stay put" order, swarmed together for the second wartime running of the classic Derby-normally held at Epsom Downs, nearer London...
This tells what goes in and what comes out. The mystery is how the transmutation is achieved. The classic explanation, commonly accepted until recently, was proposed in 1870 by Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer, and amplified by Nobel Prizeman Richard Willstütter of Munich: Under the influence of chlorophyll, carbon dioxide and water combine to form formaldehyde (CH 2 O) and free oxygen. Then, under the influence of light, six formaldehyde molecules somehow assemble into one glucose molecule...
...British aviator was given the classic burn treatment: first a scrubbing under anesthesia, then applications of tannic acid (found in tea, bark, coffee, etc.). One day a noted surgeon visited him, ordered the tannic-acid treatment stopped at once. But it was too late. "This is what tannic acid does," said the lieutenant last week, holding up his glazed hands, permanently puckered into half-closed fists...
...George Olsen and His Music, then playing at Manhattan's Pennsylvania Hotel, picked Who? and made a sensational arrangement of it. Victor transferred the arrangement to a disc, and soon the exciting, eminently singable melody was the U.S.'s hit tune. Today it is a popular "classic" that has outlived both Marilyn Miller and Percy Hammond...
...spare the handsome hide of Matador Power, Armillita, the Babe Ruth of Mexican matadors, bats for him in the bullfight scenes. Last week Armillita was doing double duty. While U.S. cinemaddicts watched his classic cape-work in Blood and Sand, Mexicans beheld it in an equally new but quite different picture - a Posa Films production starring Mexico's fun niest comedian, Cantinflas. Its title: Neither Blood Nor Sand...