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...possible conditions, seeds were shipped by airplane to Miami, California, Puerto Rico, Argentina, by fast steamer to Australia. In California alone, 100 Japanese girls were hired to do nothing but pollinate the blossoms. To prevent bees from messing up the experiments with promiscuous pollinations, it was found necessary to clip the petals. In January 1934 Mr. Burpee announced May delivery of seeds for the varicolored, ten-petaled hybrids, a whole growing season ahead of any other breeder...
...Sanctions Committee had been scheduled this week to add oil to the list of products denied Italy. Abruptly the British, who ostensibly had been driving for this end, joined the French in causing the League to "postpone" any such action. This about-face caught the Roosevelt Administration a neat clip, transferred much Italian resentment from London and Paris to Washington. There II Duce's representatives said with upped eyebrows that the White House seemed to be "outsanctioning the sanctionists," all of whom at latest reports were still selling oil to Italy...
...first school of thought holds that the short clip was a Princeton innovation plagiarized by Crimson undergraduates. Fearing that this statement might lead to their boycott, they asked that their names be withehld...
Barber Breen of the Manter Hall Hairdressers, on the other hand, believes that monks were the first to use the short clip. "The short haircut is properly called monkey haircut," he said, "because the monks are the originators. The name monkey was given it by a Mr. Schneider, head tonsorial artist of the Hotel Vendome 41 years ago. He was the first to give the short clip and should know the proper title for it," Mr. Breen concluded...
...dancing, tennis, shooting, prizefights, the circus, slapstick at the Palladium and ginger ale with his meals. Untroubled by minor inconsistencies, he is a Mason, Greek Orthodox and divorced-all in good standing. Until last week he has been rather careful with his fortune of $100,000. Then at one clip Kingmaker Kondylis sent him $200,000 in advance expense money for his triumphal return to Athens, and at once there was trouble. Seemingly the Greek Dictator did not realize how English George II has become in all these years, making himself at home to the point of picking his teeth...