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Seated on the terrace one night last January was a foursome that might have stepped direct from Maugham's pages. One was sun-bronzed, handsome Josslyn Victor Hay, 39, 22nd Earl of Erroll, Hereditary High Constable of Scotland (a title conferred on his family in 1314 by Robert Bruce). He was a veteran of Mayfair, the Continental casinos, the English hunting fields and African big-game trails. Twice married, once divorced, and a recent widower, he owned and worked a large Kenya cattle farm, was active in Kenya's Legislative Council, and like a true sportsman lamented Nairobi...
...simple device which shows farmers the moisture content of their grains and forage, enabling them to judge proper time for harvest and storage. (Many a barn is set alight by spontaneous combustion of hay, stored too wet.) With the new gadget, invented by Ohio Agronomist Robert Q. Parks, the farmer can test his crops quickly in the field by adding water-hungry calcium carbide to plant tissue, which then loses weight in proportion to its moisture content...
...most independent-minded (vis-a-vis the U. S.), and at the same time the most pro-British, and so the Ortiz-Castillo feud will have little effect on foreign policy unless it blows up into revolution. But in nearby Uruguay the anti-Government Herrerista-Blanco Party makes hay by opposing U. S. influence. In Paraguay a showdown is brewing between Dictator-President General Higino Morinigo and his would-be successor, onetime Provisional President Colonel Rafael Franco, who is now supporting himself by making soap in Buenos Aires...
Thus, as stiffly and artificially as a group of actors reading a bad play for the first time, did London's A. R. P. squads hold their first rehearsal of defense against gas. For a semblance of reality, a harmless gas with a stench like musty hay had been slopped in liquid form inside the roped off arena...
...record reveals Cagney as an East Side student dentist with a mooching Irish father (Alan Hale) whose philosophy is: "I was never in the world cut out to be a street cleaner and there's no use reaching for the stars." Cagney loses the neighborhood strawberry blonde (Rita Hay worth) to a chiselling contractor (Jack Carson) and on rebound marries her girl friend (Olivia de Havilland). Later they visit the contractor, grown rich, where they dine under newfangled electric light. "Isn't it dangerous?" asks Olivia. Says Carson: "Not if you pay the bill...