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...team: 27-year-old Ted Schroeder, who helped take the cup in 1946 and 1947 but lost five of his six tournaments this year, and 32-year-old Frank Parker, whose mechanical, unemotional game after 15 years in top competition is about as exciting to watch as a meat grinder. The only new face would be Quist's singles teammate, Billy Sidwell, the 28-year-old rookie star of Australia's victory against Czechoslovakia (TIME...
Dances, yesterday's symposium, and special entertainments rounded out the non-stop program. Sporadically entertained by the Glee Club and the Band, the 1800 also were serenaded by assorted other musicians including a troop of Scotch bagpipers, an accordion player and an organ grinder with an aging monkey. Bobby, the monk, who winters in the Square, drew plaudits and coin as he entwined his tail around bare ankles...
...called the germ-killing substance a phytoncide (meaning: a killer derived from plants). Now Food Chemist Edward F. Kohman has found that the active chemical agent in onions is a thioaldehyde, a close relative of the common antiseptic, formaldehyde. Chemist Kohman put raw onions through an ordinary household meat grinder, distilled the onion vapors, put them through a series of chemical tests. In a recent issue of Science, he reported finding about 1/20 of a gram of thioaldehyde in a pound of raw onions...
...House caucus room. Motion-picture and television cameras stood tripod to tripod, electrical cables matted the floor like jungle vines. Both crowds and cameramen had come with a single purpose: to watch James Caesar Petrillo, the union boss of all U.S. musicians, dropped into the legislative meat grinder and publicly reduced to scrapple...
Editor Carroll Binder (rhymes with grinder) was no disgruntled aspirant, but one of the Pulitzer Prize's preliminary pickers. He was a member of a nominating jury to weed out contenders for the $500 prize for international telegraphic reporting. Disregarding the jury's verdict (which recommended a prize to the New York Herald Tribune's Arch Steele), the committee handed the prize to roly-poly Eddy Gilmore, inoffensive Moscow correspondent of the Associated Press (TIME, Aug. 12).* It was the A.P.'s eleventh Pulitzer Prize. And an award to Brooks Atkinson (for a fine series...