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...almost two years a notably thorough analysis of possible meat substitutes has been conducted at Yale by Botanist Paul Rufus Burkholder. He and others have found a number which on almost every food count (protein, vitamins, calcium, carbohydrates) are as good as or better than beefsteak; even whole wheat compares well with meat. Some substitutes recommended by Professor Burkholder...
...Britain's most excited citizens last week was amateur botanist and practical farmer Richard Mansion Mortimer, 65, a Scotsman who has a place at Great Wigborough, Essex. Around three-year-old bomb craters in his fields strange plants had sprouted to a height of seven feet.* Canny Richard Mortimer examined the flora, reported: "The plant can be grown as easily as a common weed, and raw rubber will drip from it when it is cut. Samples of the plant were sent to a chemist. The report came back: 'pure latex.' Each plant yields between...
Joseph Mitchell is as gloomy as only a humorist can be. For years he has been studying, with the prying patience of a botanist, the queer human weeds he finds growing in the dingier interstices of Manhattan's bum-littered Bowery. But Mitchell is saddened when readers of The New Yorker, Esquire and other magazines chuckle at the results of his researches, these 20 profiles and stories, now collected for the first time in book form. For Humorist Mitchell professes to find nothing comic in his wacky human jujubes. He says he does not caricature them. Instead, he describes...
Died. Dr. Alexander P. Anderson, 80, experimental botanist, who put the air and noise into modern breakfast cereals; of heart disease; in Miami. Experimenting with a test-tubeful of rice at New York's Botanical Garden in 1901, he accidentally exploded it, picked up some of the blasted grains, tasted them, found he had achieved puffed rice. Quaker Oats's interest in his product made him a fortune. He was a notable attraction at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, where he blew grain out of a gunlike apparatus billed as "the Eighth Wonder...
Culver, a radio expert who was an Army Signal Corps major in World War I; Botanist Harvey E. Stork, an aerial photographer in that war; Dean Lindsey Blayney, a colonel on General Pershing's staff...