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...Massey's barbershop at 3306 Main Street, Kansas City, a big, muscular man, generously daubed with powder and witch hazel, eased himself out of a barber's chair. He had just had a haircut, shave, shampoo, scalp massage and shoe shine-"the works." Time was when the big man, a steamfitter by trade, would have thought it mad folly to come to Ed Massey's for anything but a haircut. But last week his pay envelope held $140, and he now frankly enjoyed these little male luxuries-everything except a manicure...
...receiving-set supply problem has finally been licked. A compact plastic-sprayed set (all-wave, with considerable range) is so resistant to tropic damp that it can even be submerged under water for hours without damage. Other difficulties have been met with diesel powder, well-equipped studios...
...contact and stomach poison. It first paralyzes an insect's hind legs, then gives it a violent attack of the jitters, finally brings on complete paralysis and death. Oddly, the pure chemical has little effect; it is good only in an oil solution or when mixed with inert powder. The usual dose is 1% to 5% DDT, dissolved in kerosene or mixed with a dust filler...
Experts gave Trainer Ben Jones most of the credit when a 7-to-1 colt named Pensive ran away with the Kentucky Derby. The three-year-old, owned by Warren Wright of Chicago (Calumet Baking Powder), had shown only so-so form in winning three of seven previous starts, wns ailing a week before the Derby. A week after that event Pensive, again with Jockey Conn McCreary up, breezed through to cop the Preakness. Next week Pensive, McCreary and Jones are favored to take the Belmont Stakes and the second Triple Crown* of U.S. horse racing for Ben Jones...
...dynamic super vision, the blue-green penicillium mold began to grow again. The researchers dis covered that the best growing temperature is about 75° F.,that the mold needs plenty of air. At first, Dr. Florey's researchers got only about a gram of reddish-brown powder (the sodium salt of penicillin -penicillin itself is an unstable acid) from 100 liters of the mold liquid. But at last, after heroic chemical cookery, they accumulated enough penicillin to test the drug on living creatures...