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President Truman set out last week to mold his own administration and streamline Washington bureaucracy once & for all. Within 48 hours, he made three cabinet changes and asked Congress for permanent authority to untangle overlapping bureaus and agencies...
Grasshoppers and Cantaloupes. In a constant search for new microscopic workers, industrial, university and Government researchers have isolated over 200,000 varieties. Useful microbes may turn up anywhere-in the air, on the water, on forest leaf mold, in city garbage cans. A potent industrial bacillus was discovered in the intestines of a grasshopper. The best strain of the mold Penicillium notatum, which makes life-saving penicillin, was first noticed on a cantaloupe rind...
Smell of Earth. Last week came news of a new antibiotic that may be as great as penicillin. Called streptomycin, it is a product of the mold-like Actinomyces griseus, which helps to give newly turned earth its distinctive smell. The drug was discovered by stocky, energetic Selman A. Waksman, 56, Russian-born microbiologist at the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station in New Brunswick, and dean of U.S. antibiotic researchers. (The first to use the word antibiotic for these new drugs, he was writing on the subject years before penicillin's rise...
...time Haile Selassie, a proud man, had longed for the absolute authority he once had. In the interim, Britain had guided his affairs of state, protected his frontiers, helped restore his war-torn towns, even put down tribal rebellions. There were also disturbing whispers that Britain was planning to mold a Greater Somaliland out of British and Italian Somaliland, with a slice of Ethiopia included. Haile Selassie wanted less help in managing his own affairs...
Except for Saturday matinees in the neighborhood cinema circuit, the movie serial that reached its zenith of popularity with "The Perils of Pauline" has given way to series, unconnected in plot, but cast in the same mold: The Great Gildersleeve, Andy Hardy, Laurel and Hardy, Crime Doctor, Doctor Gillespie, Fibber McGeo and Molly. People find these entertaining, just as they like familiar Tchaikowsky and spurn Shostakovich, but no further contribution to a stagnating film-art can come from such mechanically-whipped froth. To use the vernacular, when you've seen one, you've seen...