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...salt-marsh species so thoroughly adapted themselves to life with DDT that it took ten times the regular dose to kill their wiggler offspring. The discovery justified an uneasy suspicion held by entomologists: when the weaker members of the tribe are killed off, the survivors, mating together, gradually produce a strain that can ignore...
...John R. Marsh, her husband, told how a careering car ran her down as they were crossing Peachtree Street on the night of August II. "That is something I saw and I am afraid I will see the rest of my life," he said in a low voice...
...masthead of Publisher Marshall Field's Chicago Sun-Times (circ. 630,000) appeared a new name last week: "Marshall Field Jr., assistant publisher and associate editor." After a 3½-year apprenticeship, young (33) "Marsh" Field had taken over the dominant editorial role in the round-the-clock tabloid that some day he will...
...editor was still grey-haired Richard J. Finnegan, 65, onetime publisher of the Times, but in the day-to-day job of putting out the paper, Marsh Field would make the decisions from now on. As one of the first changes in the new regime, veteran Managing Editor Marvin McCarthy, who did not agree with Field on how the news should be played, resigned. Into his shoes stepped a man with whom Marsh Field sees eye to eye-Milburn P. Akers, 49, Sun-Times political columnist and executive...
...forceful, explosive Mrs. Force as front man, the Whitney Studio went great guns. By 1928 the Whitney Studio Club, where artists could get together and show their works, had 400 members and 400 more were clamoring to get in. Dozens of artists including Painters John Sloan, Edward Hopper, Reginald Marsh and Sculptor John B. Flannagan, had had their first one-man shows at the Whitney. Works by Whitney-sponsored artists were getting into museums, and selling on Fifth Avenue...