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...first volume of Thomas Mann's extraordinary Biblical novel, Joseph and His Brothers, made U. S. readers aware of the fuller meaning a great imagination could find in a bare, familiar legend. That subtle book of 428 pages retold the Old Testament story of the patriarch Jacob, his wife Rachel, and his sons, particularly his favorite. Joseph...
...root-sprouting and growth (TIME, Oct.11). Heteroauxin can be made synthetically at a cost of about $3 per ounce. One ounce in very dilute solution is enough to treat hundreds of plants. At the Department of Agriculture's experiment station in Beltsville, Md., Frank Easter Gardner and Ezra Jacob Kraus of the University of Chicago sprayed holly blooms with heteroauxin, obtained berries. These parthenocarpic fruits contained no trace of embryo, but the plant ovaries swelled up just as though the blooms had been pollinated, the seed coats developed, and the berries, green at first, turned red at the proper...
Although no one suspects Major the Hon. John Jacob Astor, proprietor of the London Times and brother-in-law of famed Nancy, of having taken "Nazi gold," his great journal has gradually become sufficiently pro-German to provoke international reactions. Not long ago that famed "Thunderer," the Times, editorialized...
...after a buzz saw cut off the fingers of a German-born wood turner named John Jacob Bausch, he went tc work selling spectacles in partnership with one Henry Lomb. When Founder Bausch'< son, Edward, learned to fashion microscopes, and sell them, too, Bausch & Lomb began to prosper. Smart Edward Bausch established contacts with the famed German firm of Carl Zeiss in 1890 and before long Bausch & Lomb was using Zeiss patents with exclusive rights to the U. S. market. Shortly thereafter Zeiss bought one-fifth of Bausch & Lomb stock and warmed by increasing royalties from Rochester, began schooling...
...Manhattan. Jacob Berman, 52, a native of Minsk, Russia, had for three months given shelter, firewood, candles to two tenants in his condemned three-room flat, at rental of 5? per day. When he developed a sore foot and was unable to go out for wood, they refused to pay rent. Final compromise: the tenants agreed to bring their landlord food, firewood, candles in return for free lodging...