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...kill-all. Against two of the most common U.S. crop destroyers, the Mexican bean beetle and the cotton boll weevil, DDT has proved disappointing. Man has not yet won his war with the insects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: DDT | 6/12/1944 | See Source »

...South, planting was the latest in a quarter-century. Vegetables that should be well up in April were not even planted. The snap-bean crop in Georgia will be 75% below normal. Watermelons will be scarce. A more important delay was in corn and cotton planting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD: Floods and Crops | 5/8/1944 | See Source »

...Elizabethan talk and supralunar world of Krazy Kat were entirely his own - a new private universe of fantasy, irony, weird characterization, odd beauty. It looks as simple as daylight, this illimitably varied, unchanging little comedy about the noble-souled, loony, amorous Kat who loves to have his bean creased by the brick that malicious Ignatz Mouse loves to throw, while Dogberryish Offisa Pupp, the stolidly distraught embodiment of the Law, tries, and forever fails, to stop the brick. The predicament of the Kat, Ignatz and the Pupp is perhaps the century's wisest, certainly its gayest, fable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Among the Unlimitless Etha | 5/8/1944 | See Source »

Grim in his three-starred helmet, beribboned battle jacket, mirror-shined cavalry boots and butter-bean pants, "Old Blood & Guts" was photographed last week in England reviewing troops, and it was announced that he would command a U.S. ground army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Whatever his Faults | 5/1/1944 | See Source »

...Arpad's finest trait is his humanness. Pause and bean-lean Rewriteman Mel Heimer, 28, who now writes the Arpad stories, have given their bird a personality as individual as Donald Duck's. Says Heimer: "He's a chiseler, a no-good with the mental ability of a weather vane -one day one thing, the next day another. In short, a stinker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Fowl Play | 1/3/1944 | See Source »

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