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...crack regiments, the 26th Infantry* of the war-famed First Division. It was his second assignment to the same job, for in 1918, in the Argonne, Roosevelt was upped from battalion command to lead the 26th, stumped away from a hospital (he had been twice wounded) on a cane...
Distraught, Conductor Klemperer went to Rye, N.Y. one weekend last March, asked for a room in a private sanatorium. Next morning he left, and the sanatorium director. Dr. Daniel J. Kelly, notified police, who issued a nine-State alarm describing Conductor Klemperer as "dangerous and insane," bearing a cane which he "likes to use on policemen." Next day the conductor was picked up in Morristown, N.J. by police who grabbed first the cane, then him. Jailed for 26 hours, he was released when his wife flew East from California. A psychiatrist examined Conductor Klemperer, pronounced him sane but "nervous, temperamental...
Another line of attack against plant fungi is to develop naturally immune strains by breeding. At the turn of the century long-fibred U. S. cotton was rescued from fungus by crossbreeding with a resistant Egyptian variety; in the 1920s Louisiana sugar cane was saved by supplanting the old "noble" strains with resistant breeds. In 1937 the U. S. Bureau of Plant Industry estimated that more than one-fourth of U. S. farmlands were planted to disease-resistant crops...
This last year was a hard one for the old gentleman. He had once walked with a magnificent leisure, his hands behind him clasped about his cane. He used to pause now and then to tip his bowler to someone, or to keep his cigarette chain going. But this winter there was no leisure in his walk; it was just a slow walk, and he was not smoking, and when he talked with you, he coughed at length, and the familiar smile left his face. Pierre de Chaignon la Rose had been a scholar and a dandy...
...still staring at the crowd's clothing when the big Negro ran past him. The black face was bisected by a toothy grin. Close behind came Mather, waving his cane and sputtering imprecations. Vag stepped back through the slit to get out of the way, and the change in light blinded him for a moment. When his vision cleared the radio was back on the mantel...