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Point of Honor. In Detroit, when Bennie Evans was hauled into police court for drinking whisky, insulting women and eating popcorn in a movie theater, Evans indignantly protested: "I have never eaten popcorn in my life...
Alpha to Beta. Dr. Lincoln, a graduate of Boston University School of Medicine in 1926, had an ordinary general practice in Medford until 1946, when he cultured some staphylococcus germs from a patient's nose. He noticed that the culture was being eaten away, so he sent it to a friend at Boston University, who told him that he had a bacteriophage in the test tube. Soon, the friend began growing the germs and their sidekicks, the phages, in murky bottles. Dr. Lincoln used the extracted phage material to drip into the noses of patients with minor ailments, generally...
...cattle. From each clutch hatch about 200 maggots, which eat a hole in a cow as big as a lemon. Often other flies attack the same wound. Unless an outside agency (i.e., a cowpoke with anti-fly dressings) comes to the cow's rescue, she may be eaten alive...
...Mullard Ltd. is exporting an ultrasonic soldering iron which the company hopes will be used to solder aluminum instead of welding and riveting it. The hot point of the iron vibrates so rapidly that the high-pitched "sound" it generates erodes the aluminum oxide that must be eaten away before a solder joint can be made. Then, using standard soft solder, the iron makes a neat, strong joint. Export price...
...whereabouts of the fossils. But American scientists obviously do not know. The bones may have been destroyed by ignorant Japanese soldiers, may lie at the bottom of Tientsin harbor or may still be waiting discovery in some godown. There is also a chance that they were pulverized and eaten by Chinese peasants, since ground "dragon's bones" (fossils) have made strong medicine in China for centuries. In one form or another, the remains of Peking man are probably still in his native land...