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...PLANT STRAINS. Sweden's Ake Gustafsson reported that seeds exposed to atomic radiation, notably barley, new wheat, peas, flax, tomatoes, had produced new, hardier strains by mutation. In the future, said Gustafsson, new breeds of plants can be developed to produce healthy crops almost anywhere in the world...
...hereby give my entire estate," ran the will of Edgar H. Donne, 70, who lived & died in a one-room shack on a barren Michigan farm, "to Greta Lovisa Gustafsson, screen actress, whose stage name is Greta Garbo, to her and no other." Neighbors recalled that Donne had once bought himself some new clothes and set out for Hollywood; after he got back he never talked about it. He once wrote Garbo a letter; it came back stamped "Refused." The local probate judge estimated that lonely Hermit Donne was worth about $20,000. Postscript to the will: "If Greta Garbo...
Back to the U. S. the Swedish liner Kungsholm brought Greta Louvisa Gustafsson, alias Garbo. More approachable than usual, after her summer in Europe with Leopold Stokowski, she chatted brightly with reporters, smiled, posed for pictures. Asked whether she was married, she said she would not marry until she found the "right man." Into Jack & Charlie's ("21"), famed Manhattan restaurant, wandered Cinema Director Frank Capra, dressed in conventional Hollywood garb, including a polo shirt open at the throat. The headwaiter, horrified, rushed up to him, murmured apologetically: "Sorry, but you can't sit here like that...
Temporarily unphotographed, Lovers Greta Garbo (real name: Greta Louvisa Gustafsson) and Leopold Anton Stanislaw Stokowski were bowling along in an automobile near Stockholm. Stoky, driving, cut a corner too sharply: the car turned over, shook them up good & proper...
Fortnight ago their vigilance was rewarded. Stoky rented Ravello's Villa Cimbrone for a month, and less than a week later he was joined by stately, bobbed-haired Greta Louvisa Gustafsson (Greta Garbo's real name). Soon romantic villagers were clacking of arm-in-arm walks in twilight, unabashed embraces...