Word: locusts
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Married. Baron Louis de Rothschild, 64, polo-playing former president of the Kreditanstalt, one-year Gestapo prisoner after Hitler's Anschluss; and Countess Hilda Auersperg, 44, onetime Austrian who became an American citizen; he for the first time, she for the third; in Locust Valley...
...last week made a preliminary report on another sensational British insect killer, Gammexane, claimed to be five times as deadly as DDT (TIME, May 28, 1945). It has an unpleasant naphthalene smell, lacks DDT's lasting effect. It is particularly potent against cockroaches, proved effective in checking a locust plague in Sardinia this spring, and has shown promise against the cotton boll weevil. But in the sunny U.S. climate it has been generally less lethal than in foggy Britain...
Everything in Sardinia tasted of locust. A sickly, bitterish flavor permeated milk, cheese and beef from cattle that had crunched the pests with their fodder. (Last year several peasants, after losing their crops, then tasting locust for weeks, went...
...week's end, with a national disaster threatening (and national elections approaching) King Umberto and Premier de Gasperi got the same idea. Each hopped into a plane, raced to Cagliari. Umberto won handily. He watched as locust-fighters deployed their last weapon: 62 drums of gammexane, a sort of new DDT, flown in from England for its first big-scale test. If this failed, nothing would stop the scourge save a miracle such as that related in Exodus 10:19: "And the Lord turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into...
...Violinmakers, a stocky, shy Philadelphian named William Moennig Jr. Moennig also does all the repairing on Efrem Zimbalist's Stradivari violin, Gregor Piatigorsky's Montagnana cello.* Moennig, 40, and his 62-year-old father live and work in a colonial house on Philadelphia's once swank Locust Street, now lined with doctors' offices. The Moennigs sit at benches side by side, poking quietly into ailing old masters with scrapers, knives, gouges, chisels. In a safe in their workshop are $250,000 worth of old fiddles which they take out and study constantly. To Violist Primrose...