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Behind the Crimson pair came Columbia's Bennett Flax, Penn's Bill Rich and Radclyffe Thompson, and Columbia's Bob Conway...
Career Pap. Bert Flax is a sunny, shallow, sincere young man who begins his writing career as a precocious student in a Bronx parochial school, submitting smug little essays to the Catholic press-most notably the Tiny Messenger and Catholic Woman. His subjects run to problems like dirty movies and where the angels go in the wintertime; his most masterly creation is Father Danny, "a lean, clear-eyed man, with a spring in his step and a great fund of natural humility." Bert is so good at this kind of pap, in fact, that he decides to make a career...
...though all the dust devils that ever ghosted across the desert before the days of irrigation had returned to haunt California's Imperial Valley. Over fields of flax reddened by a dawning sun, thousands upon thousands of mourning doves wheeled and circled, their whistling wings deepening the sense of speed. Below, Cattleman Virgil Torrance tightened his grip on a 12-gauge single-barreled shotgun. The doves' cries were tender and doleful: "Whee-eet, whee-eet, whee-eet." Torrance smiled: "When I hear that, it's all I can do to pull the trigger." And he proceeded...
...COUNTRIES. In The Netherlands, the weather hurt the corn crop and stunted Dutch bulbs, draining them of their brilliant hues. In Belgium, the flax crop is bad, and the wheat harvest in some places is one-fourth its normal size. But of greater concern to the Belgians than the meager harvest or the tempestuous weather was a new law that goes into effect this week, creating a formal language barrier across the land. Dutch will be the official tongue in the Flemish north, French in the Walloon-dominated south, with pockets of both peoples stranded on the wrong side. Months...
Occasional Bite. For five years Holloway and Huffaker tempted the weevil with other plants. They found that the worst the weevils would do was to take an occasional bite out of alfalfa or flax if there was no puncture weed around, but they also discovered that the weevil's larvae could only grow in the pods of puncture vines. Convinced that the weevils were safe enough for large-scale experiments, the biologists imported 15 from Italy early this year and turned them loose to feast on a private garden of puncture weed. Now they have a crop of more...