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Friends of Cross reported he had mailed the dynamite and firing caps to Cambridge from Oregon, where he worked as a logging blaster last summer. They said he had kept it in a chest in his room. Two weeks ago, the sources disclosed. Cross woke up Winthrop House sloepers by blowing up six sticks of his stock with a four-minute fuse and caps...
Boston correspondents, nevertheless, made full use this afternoon of their right to free speculation. The Record's leading blaster, Dave Egan, pointed his prophetic pen at 32-year of "Biff" Glassford of New Hampshire University, "one of the greatest young coaches in the country." In two years, Glassford has lost only one game, the recent Glass Bowl contest in Toledo...
...Beetle Blaster. Last week the developers of DDT, Geigy Co., Inc., an old dye firm with branches in Switzerland and New York, told reporters in Manhattan how the chemical was discovered. Like penicillin, DDT was known long before its usefulness was appreciated. A complicated chemical (full name: dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane), whose chief ingredients are chlorine, alcohol and sulfuric acid, DDT was first synthesized in 1874 by a German student named Othmar Zeidler. He had no idea of its possibilities as an insecticide, dismissed his discovery in six lines in a German chemical journal...
...Army Ordnance Department is getting set to mass-produce an explosive that may prove as shattering as the "new and highly secret" ammunition Great Britain recently put to work (TIME, Nov. 10). Whether in fact the Army's new explosive is identical with the British blaster, the Ordnance Department is not saying, but it does admit that its mysterious new stuff wallops 40% harder than TNT, hitherto the strongest bursting charge in general...
...bound to fit in beautifully with Hollywood's new taste for social significance; and filmed with the inimitable MGM touch of authenticity, it could not miss its mark. It did not, but neither did it displace "The Mortal Storm" as by far the most credible and exciting Nazi-blaster ever flashed across the American screen...