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Frenchmen elected their first 100% Communist Senator last week in the droop-mustached, doctrinaire person of M. Marcel Cachin, editor of L'Humanité. Another freak feature of the poll, which left the Senate still an assembly of oldster moderates: Premier Laval was elected Senator twice over, has until Jan. 14 to decide which of two constituencies he will represent for the next nine years...
...savage Boer War and much strife thereafter have made Premier General James Barry Munnik Hertzog sad-faced and careworn. To a caucus of his United Party at Oudtshoorn last week the droop-whiskered veteran said with grim conviction...
...entire ground floor of the new U. S. Embassy was decorated for its first grand ball as a combination barnyard and zoo. Moscow's two best jazz orchestras blared near a frisky goat, four droop-eyed sheep, a cageful of songbirds and roosters. Two bear cubs, borrowed by Ambassador Bullitt from the Moscow Public Zoo, spent most of the evening in each other's arms. Revelers in white ties included Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff, Education Commissar Bubnov, Foreign Trade Commissar Rosengolt. Only the most old-fashioned Belshevik guests such as Publicists Nikolai Bukharin and Karl Radek...
Flower growers have learned to their sorrow that a little illuminating gas leaking into their greenhouses will wither their sturdiest blooms. Director Crocker noted that tomato plants are so sensitive that they will droop in the presence of one part of gas to 100,000 of air. He advised growers to keep a tomato plant in their greenhouses to serve as a sentinel, give warning of gas in time to save the flowers...
Lead is a cumulative poison, long exposure to which destroys nerves; makes wrists droop; puts a blue-black margin on the gums; causes colic. Chronic lead poisoning is hard to cure. At the Cleveland meeting of the American Medical Association (TIME, June 25), however, Dr. Irving Gray of Brooklyn recounted his success in expelling lead...