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Nelson Gidding's "Act With The Stars" and John Bonner's "The Boy-Girl Relationship" attract because they have a charm and lack of pretension that is missing from some of the other stories. Most of Mother Advocate's sons know better, but some of them seem unable to resist looking back over their shoulder at the devil of pseudo-sophistication. Two of the other three short stories, by William Abrahams and Martin Collins Johnson, slip at different moments into this fault. The third, Edward Pols' "Porphyro and the Beadsman," is a tedious attempt at a difficult mental portrait which...

Author: By Lawrence Lader, | Title: ON THE SHELF | 9/24/1940 | See Source »

...morning after he made up his mind, Warren contributed a final, typical gesture. At 6 a.m. he phoned the members of his district's Congressional committee, received their promise to appoint his longtime secretary, balding little Herbert Bonner, as his successor, thus saving the jobs of his own appointees. Then, with mind at ease, he accepted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: Watchdog | 8/12/1940 | See Source »

Paul Johrde raced home first in the mile trailed by Logan in third place, while Jack Bonner and Truman Ford won the shot put and pole vault for the Crimson team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Andover Tops '43 Track Team; Army Takes Lacrosse Contest | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

...drive was enhanced over the weekend by Germany's decision to intensify the war. Last week stock prices climbed to within striking distance of the 1939 peaks on indications that peace moves had failed." Disillusion grows with the reading of a pamphlet of the New York investment firm of Bonner and Bonner: "We believe that sound steel stocks, purchased around current levels, will prove very profitable--repeating, in many instances, the spectacular performance of the last war.... We have prepared reports on three very attractive steel stocks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SMOKE SCREEN | 10/31/1939 | See Source »

That plants have "emotions," "heart beats," feel pain, were theories of the late Hindu Botanist Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose. Every gardener knows that "wounded" plants heal themselves with mysterious juices. Last summer, Chemist James English Jr. and James Frederick Bonner, working at the California Institute of Technology with famed Dutch Plantman Aire Jan Haagen-Smit, announced that they had solved the mystery of that healing juice. In a kitchen-simple experiment, they butchered a batch of fresh Kentucky Wonder string beans, dribbled the hormone-rich juice into the pod-linings of other wounded beans. In a few hours, large clumps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Wounded Beans | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

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