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...gypsy moth, a European immigrant that defoliates forests in New England and is threatening the Middle West from a beachhead near Detroit, may soon be undone by synthetic sex. Martin Jacobson, Morton Beroza and William A. Jones, all of the U.S. Agricultural Research Service, tell in Science how they have isolated and synthesized the powerful chemical lure with which female gypsy moths attract their males...
...vocal finesse that this role could use, but his acting was very funny. Alison Keith was again Gilbert's answer to Medea, (this time as Katisha); again struggling through the songs and plunging through the hamming like an old pro. Joan Rosenstock contributed some more pleasant singing, and William Jacobson and Merry Isaacs rounded out the cast of principals. George Nelson and Barrie Wetstone handled the piano score ably, and musical director Burton Dudding kept everything going nicely...
Business gave way to ceremony, at least briefly, at the Gold Coast Valeteria Saturday morning, when Lieutenant Governor Robert F. Murphy (left) came to Cambridge to swear in Walter H. Levitan, son-in-law of Goldcoaster, owner-laundryman Benny Jacobson, as a Notary Public...
Startled customers had to wait a few minutes to get their shirts back, but several of them stood around watching Murphy sip coffee and note the passing scene on Plympton St. Jacobson is Executive Assistant to the Lieutenant Governor...
...Although Jacobson's prose occasionally becomes sonorous with ringingly repeated phrases, at its best it is quietly excellent. The collection has its soft spots-notably a story pointedly titled The Stranger, which tells, in the manner of Camus at his most somber, of a rich man, cut off from society by a standard brand of spiritual malaise, who comes to a strange town to die and melodramatically does. But the high spots outnumber the soft ones. In a class with Nadine Gordimer (Six Feet of the Country, A World of Strangers), Author Jacobson, 30-year-old white South African...