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They're There. In East Africa, jolly British Air Marshal Sir Keith Park, flying low over Kenya Colony's game lands, rubbed his eyes, took another peek at the herd of pink elephants below. The elephants, explained a knowing aide, had been rolling in reddish clay and they were indeed pink...
...Florey's 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...
Correspondents who interviewed Major Howard found no daredevil youngster, but a lanky, quiet-spoken, 30-year-old veteran air fighter with thinning reddish hair, a slow smile. They also found that the "one-man-air-force's" private war with the Luftwaffe had lasted for about 30 minutes, and included at least five combats with individual Nazi planes within the pattern of the general melee...
When mild-looking Victor Krulak was graduated from the Naval Academy in 1934 he was the smallest man in his class. He had a long Milquetoast nose, soft reddish hair, one constantly surprised eyebrow, and a solid reputation for whimsical understatement. Inevitably, he was called "The Brute." Last week, as a lieutenant colonel of the Marines, back from a brush with the Japs on Choiseul Island, The Brute was in line for a Navy Cross. His Marine paratroopers had harried and jabbed the Jap for a week, killed at least 144, wounded uncounted others...
...clergyman in the interior. The young man was unmarried, ate all his meals at a rather simple restaurant to which he invited His Grace of Brisbane. The waitress knew her regular customers and took the young clergyman's order first. Then she turned to Archbishop Wand, wearing his reddish purple rabat (clerical bib) under his clerical collar to indicate that he was in Episcopal Orders. "And now, Robin Red Breast," said the waitress, "what will you have...