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Speaking of gambusia (TIME, May 1 under Italy) did you know that this useful little minnow was first imported into Greece from Rome some years ago by the American Farm School on the outskirts of Salonica, to combat malaria. deadly scourge of Macedonia and all the Near East? The undrained swamps and ubiquitous containers for conserving the scant rainfall create breeding places for the anopheles mosquito which is the disease carrier. The School now propagates gambusia and each year plants large numbers of them where the)7 will do the most good by eating the larvae of the mosquito. Thanks...
...Field Marshal Sir George Francis Milne, 66. retired Chief of the Imperial General Staff, Wartime commander of the British force in Macedonia-a barony...
...looking, no friend of war, he was not raised to be a soldier but a professor. Some five universities, years of study in philosophy, languages. French and English literature, graduated him to pick & shovel work in a Labor Corps. Like his hero Bertin he sweated his spectacles steamy in Macedonia, Serbia, northern France, spent 13 months at Verdun before he settled down on the Eastern Front. Now, with the help of his education, he is getting the War out of his system, hopes to have...
...gold teeth. As an artist, Bernard Boutet de Monvel absorbed everything but his father's sly sense of humor. Fifty years old. almost theatrically handsome, his life sounds like the day dreams of a Harvard freshman. During the War he served with distinction as an aviator in France, Macedonia. Morocco, where he had time to paint a number of most effective landscapes. He was decorated with the Legion of Honor, but, a sincere Royalist, he scorns the boutonniere as a relic of the Corsican upstart Napoleon. Shortly after the War he married Delfina Edwards-Bello, beautiful daughter...
...Author. Born in Manchester, England (1895), black-haired Louis Golding started writing at 6, got a story published at 9. He left Oxford, where he was a leading esthete, to fight in Macedonia, returned to take his degree. Since then, on account of his health, he has traveled much, has slept on Stromboli's quaking sides, on beds of rosemary in Corfu. He speaks French, German, Italian, Spanish, knows Greek and Arabic. He lecture-toured the U. S. in 1927. Other novels: Forward from Babylon, Seacoast of Bohemia, Day of Atonement, Store of Ladies, The Miracle Boy, Give...