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...drowned [TIME, Aug. 28] had they realized the potentialities of jet propulsion. As a boy in western Washington, I used to toss large black ants into our quarry swimming hole. After a few preliminary struggles to orient themselves to the nearest shore, they would squirt a jet of formic acid from a convenient rear port and be shot six or eight inches nearer safety. Not being streamlined (and rudderless), these insects would re-aim and repeat the process until they were able to scramble out. Perhaps our Western ants are just smarter...
...applause as any of the cast. By now, 56-year-old Jack Benny's tightwad, pompous radio personality has become a U.S. institution, and the show's humor lies as much in his familiar character as in comic invention. As always, Benny played the foil for the acid comment of his wife, Mary Livingstone, the booming illiteracy of Bandleader Phil Harris, the naive malevolence of Singer Dennis Day, and the jaundiced animadversions of Eddie Anderson as Rochester, Benny's valet. There were indications that Benny was using his radio time...
Nobody knows for sure what causes tooth decay. But since acid-producing bacteria are now blamed by most cavity detectives, an antibiotic to check the bacteria looked like a good bet. Last week, with the blessing of the Food & Drug Administration, the Andrew Jergens Co. offered druggists just such a prescription item: Dentocillin, a tooth powder containing penicillin...
...Montparnasse friends remember him as an overpowering gay blade who talked, drank and painted at a furious clip and did all three magnificently. His paintings, on show in a Paris gallery last week, were sad and bony as a squirrel in March-cold and sometimes acid in color, scalpel-sharp in line. They consisted mostly of hollow-chested nudes, their breasts pinched with cold, whose bones and muscles were as clearly delineated as in anatomical drawings and whose eyes were black and full of misery. His landscapes, too, had a withered look. "The sun in Gruber...
Many a man has gone grey trying to find a cure for grey hair. Even vitamins such as pantothenic acid, which works fine on rats, have no effect on humans. But the search goes on. Last week Dr. James Hundley and Robert B. Ing of the National Institute of Health reported that they had found a new clue in their rat cages. Black rats which got a diet with plenty of pantothenic acid but not enough copper went grey within eight weeks; boosting the copper in their food started a fine crop of black hair growing again within five days...