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...last week, Entomologist R. C. Bushland of the U.S. Department of Agriculture was planning a dirty trick on an unpleasant insect: the screwworm fly of Texas and Florida. The female flies lay their eggs in open wounds (even scratches or tick bites) in the hides of cattle. From each clutch hatch about 200 maggots, which eat a hole in a cow as big as a lemon. Often other flies attack the same wound. Unless an outside agency (i.e., a cowpoke with anti-fly dressings) comes to the cow's rescue, she may be eaten alive...
...usual, Bob thanked the Lord when he got the Sullivan Trophy. But lest someone regard him as stuffily sanctimonious, he added: "I don't imply that God is any metaphysical demon hiding behind the nearest cloud, waiting to clutch at me and lift me over the crossbar ... I mean psychological influence, which He exerts over all those who can search their souls and find there the strength to perform wonderful things...
...show's best scene. The action between scenes then speeds up with the introduction of "Hemingway," a slap-happy sailor who speaks only in wisecracks of nautical slang. That's about it: the picture ends in a standard ballroom scene where the men wear black masks and clutch flaming candelabras...
Second on the double bill is "Basketball Fix" with John Ireland, the straight story of a college basketball player in the clutch of gamblers. Unfortunately the story is all too true, but the athlete is played by such a naive teenager that the movie loses touch with reality...
Pitchers Vic Raschi, Ed Lopat, Allie Reynolds have received credit for a great many victories. Their talents may be questioned, though I shall not question them, but the fact remains. The clutch hitting of Joe DiMaggio, Yogi Berra, Jerry Coleman, and Gil McDouglad may be questioned, but every game has a winning run, and those men have batted in a great many of them...