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I live down here in Texas and our bees are so big we use 'em for primary trainers at Randolph Field. But sting a man four times? Don't let Sam feed you that! They only sting once, in the orthodox manner, and then quietly die.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 4, 1946 | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

He was not content just to worry about it. Once, on a visit to Columbia University, Publisher Brown had been stirred by a brilliant lecture on editorial writing, had wished that other editors could have heard it too. In Providence he had tried an experiment. To expose his key staffers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Noble Experiment | 10/14/1946 | See Source »

The Winants' West Coast counterpart is Graphic Educational Productions, alias Jerome Goldberg of Los Angeles. Graphic's more ambitious series is for children from five to nine - who spend most of their time asking "Why, Daddy?" The records will give the right answer to 25 perennial posers such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Tips for Tots | 10/7/1946 | See Source »

Said London's conservative Daily Telegraph editorially (after quoting Wallace on the necessity of convincing Russia that the Americans are not out to save the British Empire): "Bees in bonnets have seldom buzzed louder. To the British reader, who may well be bewildered at such language from a minister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: The Speech | 9/23/1946 | See Source »

Many scientists, especially those who study living wild creatures, are leary of DDT. It does too good a job, upsets the balance of nature. By killing innocuous insects, it starves insectivorous birds. By killing bees and other pollinators, it keeps plants from producing seeds. If it gets into water, it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Flyless Mountain | 9/16/1946 | See Source »

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