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...promiscuous sexual life of the giant ragweed (Ambrosia trifide)and other species again last week brought tears to the eyes of several million U.S. hay fever sufferers. In the next few weeks a good million tons of ragweed pollen will drift imperceptibly over the U.S. seeking mates...
Chicago could have told New York that it is wasting its time. In 1933 Chicago put 25,000 men to work cleaning up weeds (cost: $165,000). Result: no lessening in pollen concentrations, sneezes & sniffles. Reason: ragweed that grows within city limits is only an infinitesimally small source of hay fever infection. The main source is pollen carried by the wind over some 2,000,000 square miles where ragweed flourishes east of the Rockies...
America's gayest graveyard began a new broadcast last fortnight (Bible readings) with a new announcer, Scottish-burred Bill Hay, announcer for 16 years of the Amos 'n' Andy program. When Announcer Hay finished his first reading, the story of the Creation, listeners heard a genteel plug for his sponsor, Los Angeles' Forest Lawn Memorial-Park: its wrought-iron gates are bigger than those of Buckingham Palace...
...Bill Hay knows his Bible. He won a Bible prize at the age of ten, has read his well-thumbed copy of the Scriptures over the radio some 2,500 times since the late '20s. He likes to skip around in the Bible, adds a psalm if he has finished a reading before his time is up. The 23rd Psalm is a favorite. It "is always good," he says, "for a 45-second filler...
Last week, while he was getting in the last of his hay crop at his upstate New York farm, Painter Carroll paused long enough to let off a few expletives about what he considers the wholly unrealistic idea of Art for War's sake...