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...wool. Their larvae ate dead animals on which the females deposited their small white eggs. But as soon as man started to make woolen clothes, many thousands of years ago, some moths began to change their feeding habits. With a good deal of difficulty, says Moncrieff, they learned to digest wool, have not yet completely adapted themselves to their unnatural diet. Researchers have proved that moth larvae grow faster when fed on fish meal or casein, and that unless they get vitamin B they never reach maturity. Vitamin B, plentiful in dirty clothes, is what a moth is after when...
When the Reader's Digest (circ. 16,000,000) decided to run Columnist Billy Rose's autobiography, Wine, Women and Words, in some of its foreign editions, it ran smack against a language barrier. Who could manage to translate what Rose himself called "grab-bag grammar and tipsy tavernacular...
Last week Rose gave part of the answer in his newspaper column. For the Digest's French and French Canadian editions, Maurice Chevalier, an old Rose friend who knows his Times Square as well as his Montmartre, had turned the Rose prose into "galloping Gallic." Wrote Billy, after a look at Champagne, Danseuses et Stylographe: "You could have knocked me over with an escargot...
Last week the Digest had not yet figured out how to turn Rose into nine other languages, including the Scandinavian...
Paper World. Prior to this happy time, there had been the dismal Age of the Digest (mentioned with good-natured scorn), in which the effort of the intellectuals was to reduce knowledge to capsule form, and in which lectures and articles were turned out in a wild spirit of competition in almost inconceivable numbers, until the emptiness of a world built of paper brought on a collapse...