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Under house arrest at his estate in Snagov, Prince Nicholas of Rumania, stripped by his brother King Carol of all royal and military rights (TIME, April 19), assumed the name of Mr. Bran (from one of his mother's castles in Transylvania), wrote a letter shushing the Iron Guard's Nicholas-for-King agitation which had alarmed Carol...
...Pont flies are fed milk and bread. Their eggs are hatched in a "synthetic manure" of wheat bran, alfalfa meal, yeast and malt. Codling moths, scourge of apple growers, have a room to themselves, with long rows of little green apples, each hanging from its own hook. These insects are caught by nailing corrugated paper board to apple trees. The moth larvae think this material is bark, dig in. Their cages are hung with purple cellophane to simulate twilight. In the greenhouse basement is the Japanese beetle division. This handsome insect, whose U. S. infestation is spreading from a focus...
...RORY AND BRAN-Lord Dunsany-Putnam ($2.50). Adventures of a half-wit youth and his dog in the pixillated Irish countryside; in the same vein but not the same class as James Stephens' Crock of GoId...
...well known and as popular as a successful breakfast food, and for the same reasons : it is a standard brand and it pleases the public palate. To analyze an Oppenheim book would be as uninformative a process as to announce that a breakfast food was compounded simply of bran, malt, sugar and salt. The important thing is what it tastes like...
Showing the same bran of ball which had enabled them to win 19 straight victories, Captain Art Johns' Freshman baseball team defeated Yale 8-6 at New Haven Saturday in the objective game of the season. This win gave the Yearlings the almost perfect slate of 20 victories and one tie, the best Freshman baseball record in years...