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...that, while they may have incidental benefits, present filters are relatively futile against dangerous tobacco tars. But the Sloan-Kettering Institute's noted cancer fighter, Dr. Ernest Wynder, believes that he can render smoking less harmful partly by making filters more effective, partly by chemically treating the tobacco leaf. It remains to be seen whether the tobacco industry will adopt these means and, if so, whether a smoke will then taste like a smoke or like a laboratory. See MEDICINE, Making Cigarettes Safe...
...Andrew Leaf holds the freshman class record for participation in the most sports, having played on eight different Thayer Middle teams...
Garden Weeder. A new weed killer developed by Monsanto Chemical Co. eliminates hand hoeing in vegetable patches. "Vegadex" destroys annual grasses and broad-leaf weeds without damaging crops, has been found safe for everything from corn to garden beets. Chemical may also be used safely in some tree and plant nurseries where hand weeding costs run as high as $100 per acre annually. Price per gallon...
Open to the Birds. Modern experts have long suspected that the description of the gold-decked walls and benches of the great hall in Beowulf owed more to the unknown author's imagination than to historical fact. At Yeavering, Hope-Taylor found no trace of such gold-leaf splendors: only a few potsherds, knives, belt fittings, nails, loom weights and a single gold coin. But the finds date from the 7th century A.D.-and he feels reasonably sure that King Edwin really ruled from this barbaric palace. It may have been the actual hall where he was converted...
...huge mahogany desk, in a suite of offices in Newark built in the days when insurance men spent heavily for purposes of prestige. Hand-carved Honduras mahogany frames the president's doors and windows; the walls are covered with silver-filigreed blue paper, the ceiling fringed with gold leaf; deep piled rugs smother the floor. Shanks sometimes works in his shirtsleeves, dials his own phone...