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...fortune. Tony was a forgetful windowsill gardener; he put the bulbs in coffee cans, forgot to water them and the plants withered. Disgusted, Tony threw the bulbs across the street into an empty lot. Later he found them revived among the weeds. He poked them into the ground between garlic plants in his garden because "garlic keeps da boogs away." Next season he was rewarded with 41 bulbs and bulblets worth $4.10. Then Tony heard the cash register ring...
...rumors swirled up again, as heady as the smell of garlic to New York's duck-bottomed little Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. But he would have none of them. Had he not been deceived 17 months ago? Then he had gone confidently to a Manhattan haberdasher and bought a resplendent gabardine uniform, suitable for one silver star, had waited for orders to fly to North Africa, perhaps dreaming of marching into Rome at the head of U.S. columns. But a Congressional hubbub over "political generals" had stopped the appointment cold; Franklin Roosevelt sent to Italy two other New York Democrats...
Father, Son and Dr. Benes. Most likely the best pianist among contemporary foreign ministers, and very probably the most accomplished cook (specialties: risotto, stews, soups; secret: powdered garlic), Masaryk tries hard to live down his name. He is a chip off a colossal old block: Professor Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, his father, was not just the creator of Czechoslovakia but a sage of world stature...
Russia's newest medical weapons against wound bacteria are among its oldest-onions and garlic. Say Drs. I. V. Toroptsev and A. G. Filatova, who made the wound experiments: "The ancient medicinal remedies used over thousands of years no longer appear absurd.'' The evidence for the vegetables as germicides, presented in last week's American Review of Soviet Medicine, would not have surprised any Russian peasant-he uses onions and garlic as a protection against typhus...
Between 1928 and 1930, a Russian scientist named B. Tokin noticed that "a paste prepared from a small amount of macerated onion, garlic or other allied plant immediately emits volatile substances which are lethal to yeast cultures," frogs' eggs, protozoa (one-celled animals which live in water), etc. Two years ago Drs. Toroptsev and Filatova began grinding up fresh onions and garlic to see whether the smell would do any good to infected wounds of rabbits...