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...Still tells of their japes and sorrows and near starvation, the rich archaic poetry of their talk and customs, in a clear, dry style as unsentimental as his seven-year-old's eyes. Before he is through with them-with Grandma, who at 78 still shucks her own corn; with Uncle Jolly, always laying up in jail awhile "or breaking ribs or taking direct action in affairs of property; with the neighbors, mean or kind, in mining camps and on hill farms-he has produced a work of art. He might easily have overdone...
...baseball broadcasts cost?), but seldom a question that made real business sense about the dollars-&-cents policies of the company. The management provided some discussion of generalities, including "sound economic ideas" and "costly experiments with business," but what most stockholders seemed to understand best were bowls of Wheaties and Corn Kix-dished up out of a big soup tureen and served with sugar and cream-partaken of by guests (owners) and hosts (management...
...ethyl methacrylate, etc.) which hardens into a glassy plastic. In blocks of this stuff he immured small dead frogs, a tarantula, the bones of a human hand (see cuts); a rattlesnake's head, complete with fangs, a peacock feather, an iridescent butterfly, a garter snake, flowers, ears of corn, ears of barley. Secretary Wallace, Dr. Sando's chief, keeps a 13-inch ear of hybrid corn, forever young and fair, imbedded in Plexiglas on his desk. Spectators marveled last week at the realistic look of tiny hairs on the tarantula...
...Manhattan became fairly familiar with an impersonal, unaccented voice reading Nazi bulletins in English. One night in October, the voice identified itself as Fred Kaltenbach, from Iowa. Fred had a "letter" he wanted to read, to an old pal back home named Harry. Soon Fred got into the tall corn. One night he signed off with: "Well, Harry old man . . . give my regards to the folks back home in Ottumwa and Waterloo." At this CBS's ears pricked-a clue. Then, around Thanksgiving time, Fred said "punkin." That settled it. He was a real American. Every Monday night thereafter...
...Dentist Sidney Bernard Finn of the University of Rochester fed a group of 90 rats a "caries-producing diet" of coarsely-ground corn. A second group of 45 rats, living on the same diet, had their teeth bathed in a weak mixture of potassium fluoride in water once a day. Results: 1) all the rats in Group I had large cavities; 2) the rats in Group II "showed a 70% reduction in dental decay"; 3) 13 of the rats in Group II had no cavities. The reduction was "not mainly in the size of the cavities, but in the number...