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Next to Koch. The biggest news last week came from Buffalo, where three tuberculosis societies held a joint convention.* Bacteriologist Rene Jules Dubos of the Rockefeller Institute had at last discovered a method of cultivating TB bacteria, simply and quickly, in test tubes. The basis of Dubos' method is a synthetic detergent made by Atlas Powder Co. (which calls it "Tween 80") for use in cosmetics. Doctors hailed the discovery as the greatest contribution to TB research since Robert Koch first isolated the germ itself...
...more abstractions than ever before. Even so, the standouts of the season were not abstractionists, but men who put awareness of nature and strong emotions ahead of nice design. Among the hit shows: Russia's Marc Chagall (who paints self-playing violins and purple cows in his clouds), Buffalo's Charles Burchfield and Germany's passionate Max Beckmann. To all of them, beauty was a matter of feeling...
Bottoms Up. In Buffalo, George and Allen Filsinger took four months to build a boat, launched it, hoisted sail, promptly capsized. They had forgotten the keel...
...last week, after 25 years of experiment, the Dominion Experimental Farm had gone far toward establishing the fact that Canadian cattle could be successfully buffaloed. Browsing in a special enclosure in the Wainwright Buffalo Park were 75 precious, sturdy calves born this spring. They were true cattalo, not hybrids but a distinctive breed. The experts were finally sure that they had taken the cattalo out of the mule's biological dead...
Today's cattalo looks more like a bull than a buffalo, but it has inherited the buffalo's robust qualities. It is bigger than a domestic bull, can stand cold much better. In weather which would freeze cattle to death, the cattalo survives...