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Controlled Growth. After a few days, the seedlings have ghost-white roots and little white spikes (the coleoptiles) which envelop the embryo leaves. Thimann cuts off the coleoptiles, trims their points, and strings the tiny hollow cylinders on the hairlike teeth of a comb. Then he puts them in water containing a little sugar and indoleacetic acid (a growth-promoting substance). He measures them under a microscope and tucks them away in darkness...
...Record Company and the songs "Sister Kate" and "I'll Never Be The Same" were played. Supported by another refugee from the mothballs, Phil Napolean, a cornetist who used to tootle feebly with Miff Mole and the rest of the Memphis Five, Tony whistles, sings and hums through a comb wrapped in tissue paper throughout both sides. Napolean--unlike King Oliver, the Benny Goodman band and fresh mackerel--has actually improved with age. There's nothing flashy about his playing, but its good steady LaRocco stuff...
...what they would "rather do than be a journalist," the editors offer a rash of suggestions from farmer and house carpenter to locomotive engineer and successful novelist. One wants to "be a good writer"; another would like to get some sleep; two would prefer to comb beaches; and one disgruntled citizen proclaims, "I bitterly oppose work of all kinds...
...more elusive humor-the blower is blown out along with the candle. His miserly Old Man Figuring seems to be plucking out sums like a harpist. Sometimes his stuff looks like-matchstick people that a U.S. Indian might have scratched on a rock. His Witch with a Comb would be an innocuous little old woman-in spite of her shoe-button eyes-except that her hands are arrows pointing straight down to the ground as if to say "I could kill...
...immediate comb-out by the Army & Navy of all uniformed personnel with scientific training or aptitude (perhaps 100,000) for assignment to schools to complete their scientific education...