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Cornelius Arzberger, a Commercial Solvents Corp. researcher, cultured from Louisiana cane-field soil a new bacterial species which ferments sugar to produce industrially useful solvents. He gave it the jaw-cracking name of Clostridium saccharo butyl acetonicum liquefaciens. Then he tried to patent it, as a plant. The patent examiner threw out his claim...
...says Dr. Young, "a big, burly man with a huge head and a strong face appeared at my office . . . diamonds sparkled from his vest, watch chain, cuff links, and the head of his cane." He was James Buchanan ("Diamond Jim") Brady. Among his imposing list of ailments: "Bright's disease [inflammation of the kidneys], generalized urinary infection, inflammation and obstruction of the prostate gland, difficulty and frequency of urination . . . angina pectoris [heart disease] and high blood pressure." Dr. Young cured his prostate trouble by using a "punch" of his own invention-a straight tube with a short, curved inner...
...snows; in Texas they were pitching horseshoes, getting ready for the fall roundup, looking over some of the finest Hereford cattle in the world at an exposition in Marfa in the Big Bend country. In Louisiana, where a Caribbean hurricane spread havoc last month, flooding out rice, breaking sugar cane, killing livestock, cotton picking started last week, the sugar mills tuned up, the first of the State's 47 fairs were opening, and at night the levees were studded with the bright fires of fish fries and shrimp boils...
...believe Louisiana sugar . . . should be put out of business all at once. That would be hard on human rights. . . ." Four years ago the sugar parish of Assumption voted for Landon.) Scholarly, weather-beaten Planter David Washington Pipes, venerated in the sugar country because he grew the cane which routed mosaic disease (as Wallace made his reputation in the corn belt by helping develop hybrid corn), bolted to Willkie, ran for Congress on the Republican ticket, and his regular Democratic opponent withdrew in his favor...
...Yale-Princeton game (see cut) played in Hoboken on Thanksgiving Day 1879-memorable because 1) it resulted in a scoreless tie; 2) Yale's Captain Walter Camp flabbergasted the referee by asking permission to put in a substitute, though no player had been injured; 3) the cane-carrying referee, who had to arbitrate a free-for-all as well as a game, was Robert Bacon, common-enemy captain of the Harvard team, later U. S. Ambassador to France...