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...corn, sugar beets, asters, dahlias et al. was found by Dr. Louis Otto Kunkel to be carried from plant to plant by a small insect called the leafhopper. Dr. Kunkel also discovered that the leafhopper very rarely flew more than three or four feet above the earth. Obvious leafhopper foil: a 4-ft. screen fence. In early autumn a plot of asters thus protected was only 20% diseased whereas 80% of the flowers just outside the fence were damaged. Last week Dr. Kunkel, now on the Rockefeller Institute staff, reported to a meeting of bacteriologists, pathologists and immunologists in Manhattan...
...promises to spare his life if Lady Blakeney will help him unmask the Scarlet Pimpernel. Lady Blakeney does so, but when she learns that the Pimpernel is Sir Percy, she has a fever of remorse. She follows Sir Percy to France, gets there in time to see him neatly foil a firing squad...
...always, the professional is the foil of the amateur, and Mr. Gleason continually tries to claim responsibility for the achievements of Miss Oliver's sleuthing. Although the picture is entertaining, it will probably prove too easy for mystery-lovers who pride themselves on their ability to spot the murderer...
...months earlier. At the time of her friend's perplexity, however, all Tokyo's department stores, tired of having patrons jump off their roofs, had hired vigilant guards and fenced their cornices with barbed wire. Today every high building in Tokyo is thus equipped to foil the desperate. Miss Tomito wracked her brain, then had an inspiration. "Dearest!" she cried, "if you cannot bear the perplexities of maturing womanhood I can take you to just the volcano...
...that he really were Judge Priest. Anita Louise is a Greuse-like decoration and as usual has no real part to show whether she can act or not. Tom Brown is young and enthusiastic. Berton Churchill has an irritating charm and ebullience all his own and is a perfect foil for the rugged honesty of the Priest famille...