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Wild Waves is a well-intended play about the fauna which infest a third-rate radio station belonging to the recent firecracker school of playwrighting that got underway about the time that Broadway was produced. As a portrait of the sort of station where the accompanist does his own announcing, where a befuddled Negro rings all the time-signals and most of the other work is done by one harried man, Wild Waves is novel and, according to oldtime radio folk, valid. Unhappily its author, Radio Dramatist William Ford Manley, has the notion that the source of rapid-fire comedy...
Grouse too are scarce. Chief grouse student at the conference was Professor Alfred Otto Gross, Bowdoin biologist. Some 30 insects infest grouse; study of the conditions which favor these parasites may reveal a cycle upon which to base conservation laws. Cornell University has done much good grouse study...
Last week Professor Felix d'Herelle?scarcely a name to the public but at Yale a tallish, dark, impatient, much respected protobiologist?gave the New York Academy of Medicine his explanation of such phenomena. Completely invisible parasites which he calls bacteriophage (TIME, May 28, 1923; Aug. 30, 1926) infest the microscopically visible germs and in some unknown way kill them. The microbes seem to dissolve into clear liquid. They are dead, for their residue cannot cause disease. But the residue is a potent poison of germs...
...years the County had spent more than $250,000 in eradicating the Texas fever tick which had blocked progress of livestock and dairy development. But cattle would ramble across the border from Louisiana (where no eradication measures were practiced) and re-infest Pike County stock as fast as they had been purged. The McComb Enterprise advocated the building of a double wire fence the length of the County line; was met by ridicule, hostility. It fought...
...celibate under the pressure of the Factory Age or to draw up its own moral code. It prefers the latter, but is hampered by superstition and Victorian prejudice. The paradox of the educated classes with small familles being fairly well-informed of methods of prevention while broods of children infest the home of the laborer is the problem that demands solution by intelligent legislation...