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...discovery was made by Kenneth V. Thimann, Professor of plant physiology, after months of experimentation at the Atkins Institute in Soledad, Cienfuegos, Cuba. The weed apparently eliminated by the experiment is the Aroma marabu weed, which had overgrown large acreages of sugar land on the island and is also a problem to cattle raisers in the region...
...really needs are some good shows. Aside from alert news and sports coverage, big, sprawling Mutual has only six or seven programs worth the time of day or night. Ed knows his weakness: "Programs will be our No. 1 objective this year." He means "programs with that commercial aroma." Ed once directed Conductor George Szell of the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra not to play over Mutual "for art's sake-play simple, melodic things for the millions...
...high-speed civilization has made even recreation a big business. Professional sports endeavors have reached up into the million-dollar levels, and salaries and gate receipts have hitched onto a fast-ascending skyrocket. What once passed for friendly "amateur" sport can no longer escape the commercial aroma of its play-for-play brethren, whose breeding grounds must still exist upon the college and school level. Rather than set themselves up in some ivory academic tower, colleges have let the lure of lucre seep down among them, and have usually welcomed with open arms such money-making orgies as the fast...
Lavender & Jazz. In 1925, when the aroma of moonshine hung like lavender over the big Bull Market, Tammany ran him for mayor. He was the people's choice. He was an hour and a half late to his own inauguration and late to almost every public ceremony thereafter. He called himself "The Late Mayor." He filled city offices with sluggish Tammany favorites. He kept a wardrobe of 70 $165 suits, drove about the city in a $17,000 Duesenberg. He lolled happily at the fabulous Central Park Casino with his mistress, musical comedy star Betty Compton (whom he afterwards...
Nothing at Harvard is so impressive as the impact of the intellectual and cultural atmosphere which greets each person as he (or she) crosses the bridge, escaping from the aroma of baked beans, and other sundry smells. --P. L. E. Nieman...