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...only trouble with Sunday supplement folk tales about deadly trees and monstrous flowers which trap, devour and digest human beings is that they are as untrue as they sound. But it is true that the plant kingdom takes a mild, sporadic revenge on the plant-eating animal kingdom by arranging for certain plants to trap, devour and digest insects, worms, larvae, tiny fish, Crustacea-even birds, mice, frogs. Last week Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History published a booklet, Carnivorous Plants, by Botanist Sophia Prior, describing these plants and their predatory procedures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Plant Bites Animal | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

Notes between the notes: Truly magnificent swing criticism is advanced in a mildly insane article by Robert Benchley in the February issue of Listener's Digest entitled, "Swing: It Origin and Development." Sample quote: "I feel particularly fitted to discuss swing music, because I can't carry a tune either." . . . Recommended to those swing fans who specialize in trying to find unrecognized good jazz is Al Cooper's Savoy Sultans on Decca's race record series. The band cut Chick Webb and gave Basic a good scare . . The second of the Goodman bands to leave the mother organization (Harry James...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 3/3/1939 | See Source »

...contrast with this what have we now? Examine the current January issues of Reader's Digest, TIME, New York Herald Tribune-Paris Edition, The Christian Century, publications which we believe are effective creators of public opinion at home and abroad. Taken together, do they or do they not leave the impression that American journalism-with one or two notable exceptions-has entered a dangerous campaign of hatred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 27, 1939 | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

Half an hour after Dr. Thomsen entered the Welles office he emerged, imperturbable. Then Mr. Welles issued to the press (including Kurt Sell of the German News Agency) his digest of the interview. In diplomatic language the substance of his answer to the Man of 1938 (see p. 11) was "Nuts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Hairy Man | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

...Abrams' blood was 1.72% sugar. That ratio, they decided, came close to the world's all-time sugar high. (Even diabetics rarely have a sugar content higher than one-half of one percent.) In a desperate attempt to rouse her from her coma, and help her liver digest a thick flood of sugar, the physicians pumped 1,000 units of insulin into Elka Abrams' bloodstream, "enough to kill an athlete...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Sugar High | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

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