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...late Rudolph Valentino in The Son of the Sheik) excited horse-& dog-lovers, also brought high marks from many a high-brow art critic. Daughter of a gentleman rancher who founded the town of Harrah, Wash., June Harrah also likes animals better than people, rates the race-tracky smell of Absorbine Jr. (used to rub down horses) higher than My Sin. Because well-heeled horse and dog owners like to have portraits of their pets on their mantelpieces, Sculptress Harrah charges much higher prices than the average bookend and paper weight animal sculptor, gets $200 for a bronze...
...Glasgow doctor named Stanley Alstead offered an ingenious suggestion for deodorizing underground raid shelters. "I understand," wrote he, "that the stench in a London tube after it has been used for a night is beyond belief. . . . Old-fashioned charcoal [ might ] help in this connexion. Its power in abolishing smells is very considerable and has largely been lost sight of. . . . [ I heard of ]; a pharmacologist who actually put a dead cat into a charcoal box and kept it in his drawing room . . . without its having caused any smell. . . . Perhaps his guests were too polite to say anything, or perhaps they just...
...when I went to Spain I was not "drawn like a fly by the smell of blood." I traveled from Paris to Madrid in a truck which was given by the International Writers League to the Republican Army, and contained a motion picture camera and a printing press for the front. The first blood I saw was that of the children of Getafe, terribly cut in pieces by Nazi bombs. Two weeks later I saw the pictures of those unhappy children published in the German anti-Semitic newspaper of Mr. Streicher, and I had to read the incredible, cynical text...
Filled with such classroom lore, Edgewood students pass their examinations with their noses, must be flunked if their sense of smell is subnormal. Sniffing daintily while instructors release small concentrations of gas, they identify chemical agents by their odors. Mustard smells like garlic, lewisite like geraniums, phosgene like musty hay or green corn, tear gas like apple blossoms. No man has yet devised a war gas that is odorless. Until someone does, the nose of a battalion gas officer, sharpened at Edgewood, will still be the No. 1 defense against...
...exceeded only by his downfield blocking nor Landsberg, the spinner specialist who can wriggle through a hole and run like a doubling fox, nor McCullough, nor Murphy, nor Bufalino, nor Schmuck, nor any of the other Big Red ball hawks who can not .only throw and catch but almost smell a pass coming their way. Cornell rolls because it is a coordinated machine with a beautifully balanced running and passing attack. "They are the most intelligent group of men I've ever coached," says Coach Carl Snavely of his team. "I give them seven new plays . . . yet the following...