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...entomologists last week made a preliminary report on another sensational British insect killer, Gammexane, claimed to be five times as deadly as DDT (TIME, May 28, 1945). It has an unpleasant naphthalene smell, lacks DDT's lasting effect. It is particularly potent against cockroaches, proved effective in checking a locust plague in Sardinia this spring, and has shown promise against the cotton boll weevil. But in the sunny U.S. climate it has been generally less lethal than in foggy Britain...
Upstairs, hundreds of people had been awakened to horror. Some were called by room telephones-a 44-year-old operator named Mrs. Julia Barry stayed at the switchboard, managed to work a few minutes before she died. But most of the guests were awakened by screams, the smell of smoke, the noise. Almost automatically they opened corridor doors and were driven back by heat and smoke. They ran to their windows, looked down the clifflike side of the building at the silent crowds in the street...
Trader Campbell had not been long at his post at Cape Wolstenholme when his manager showed him a girl brought in by an Eskimo hunter. "He thinks you need a woman," the manager casually explained. Offended by her dirt and smell, Campbell sent her packing...
Churchill Downs in the pre-Derby dawn is a heady place. Drifting wood smoke, dampened by morning dew, cuts the sharp, ammoniac smell of the stables. From the tarns, where skittish thoroughbreds are breakfasting, comes the metallic clank of feed tubs, or an occasional hoof thump. Sleepy-eyed grooms and exercise boys, clutching their mugs of coffee, shuffle through the shadows...
After a few shots of precious Kentucky bourbon (Kentuckians rhyme it with turban), strangers would almost believe what Louisvillians tell them-that you can smell the blue grass (which is 30 miles away at Shelbyville...