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Some freshwater snails that Old sent back are the first received by the Smithsonian since a shipment by a German collector in the 1890s. Some of the specimens arrived alive, making it possible to study their anatomy for the first time, and they have found Washington's alien climate so attractive that they have already begun to reproduce themselves. Old's prize find: a stream-bed that was paved with Semisulcospira amurensis, a carrier of the lung-fluke larva which causes a disease with symptoms often confused with those of tuberculosis...
Since the 1890s, the 50 gentlemen members of the Jockey Club have been the most influential force in the U.S. for reputable horse racing. In New York, 17 years ago, the state legislature gave the Jockey Club an iron hand: legal authority to license owners, trainers and jockeys. Last week the iron hand was taken off at the wrist. New York's highest court ruled that the legislature had exceeded itself in turning over to private citizens (i.e., the Jockey Club) any such legislative powers over other citizens (i.e., the owners, trainers and jockeys...
...story" on 1 new radio show called Kings Row (weekdays, 3:15 p.m. E.S.T., CBS). Scripted by the Bellamanns' good friend Welbourn Kelley, the radio version of Kings Row has most of the old characters, the same Midwestern scene, but takes place in 1951 instead of the 1890s. The show seemed good enough to bring Sponsor Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Co. back to daytime radio after a nine-year absence. What listeners heard had a familiar sob-and-sacrifice ring: noble young Dr. Parris Mitchell outwitted villainous Fulmer Green, gently disengaged himself from beauteous Randy McHugh ("Please...
...Second, Ives had set out to express "the musical feelings of the Connecticut country around here in the 1890s the music of the country folk." "To one of his rare visitors he explained that "there's not much to say about the symphony . . . It is full of the tunes they sang and played then." A composer who experimented with polytonality (writing in two or more keys simultaneously) before Stravinsky even thought about Firebird (1910), Ives somewhat whimsically deeded to set his Yankee tunes "in counter point with some Bach tunes," as "a sort of bad joke." Joke...
...issues to date, the U.S. is populated by two kinds of people: a wasteful, sex-mad, rich minority and poor, starving millions. When, as often, the Red editors are not able to find enough twistable news, they print as current events ancient stories and pictures about the rollicking 1890s and the depression-ridden 1930s. Old Charlie Chaplin movies are reported, not as achievements in comic art, but as true stories about U.S. treatment of tramps. From some cute remarks to a paper's inquiring photographer, the humorless Reds built their definition of the typical U.S. male's ideal...