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...estimate the distance by timing the round trip of an individual bee (a worker bee flies about 15 m.p.h,). To do this, one particular bee has to be marked. Hunter Edgell does it by selecting a bee which has worked its way into a cell of the comb and is relatively immune to outside distractions. Then he daubs its rear with blue paint (made from carpenter's chalk and water). On the next trip, the blue-bottomed bee stands out from its fellows...
...most brilliant of all Pinkham advertising ideas was Dan's proposal to put his mother's face on every ad. The result was inspired to the last detail-"the neat black silk dress, the tortoise-shell comb, the white fichu fastened with a cameo brooch," the perpetual smile, the sagacious and composed elderly features. Here was everybody's grandmother...
...photographs on this page were gathered, for the most part in a single day at Radcliffe. Since the purpose of the assignment was to portray the Radcliffe community as it really is, no one was allowed to comb her hair, change her clothes, or put on more make up. Thus, although it is hard to believe, Radcliffe girls are actually more attractive than they are pictured here...
...matter of fact, these dog fanciers are a pretty shifty breed, tall, gaunt folks with an option on half the unborn thoroughbred pups in North America. But the dogs themselves are a pleasant, patient lot who accept graciously some small attention and stand stoically as their masters brush, comb, chalk them, or hack away at their toenails...
Dapper Walter Hagen used to stride out to the first tee, often late for his match, run a comb through his Brilliantined hair and drawl: "Well, who's going to be second?" "The Haig's" psychological warfare continued through the match. He made the hard shots look easy, the easy ones look stupendous. Early in a match he would concede putts to his opponent, later rattle him by insisting that even the short ones be played out. No matter how poorly Walter seemed to be shooting, nobody relaxed until he was in. But where Hagen deliberately played...