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Grimly serious, Hasler predicted victory, based his hopes on Jester, a radically designed, 25-ft. gin. boat that carried no rigging-only a single, easy-to-handle lug sail. Gentle and fun-loving co-Favorite Chichester packed his 39^-ft. Gipsy Moth III with potatoes, tomato soup, baked beans, wine, beer and whisky, took along a green smoking jacket and a red cummerbund to dress for dinner, and attached a wind vane to his rudder so the 13-ton sloop would steer itself while he slept. Asked to name his chief hazard, Chichester replied: "Being run down by an ocean...
...Left Behind. Juliet Prowse's early, experimental mixing began in Johannesburg, where at eleven she won her first merit certificate-for a Greek dance, "in which I was supposed to be a moth burned by a flame." As "the baby" of Johannesburg's Festival Ballet Company, she appeared at 14 in the corps of Swan Lake, Coppelia and Les Sylphides. Two years later she was the Queen of the Wilis in Giselle, had done well enough to continue her studies in London...
...fall, and to make matters worse, Delhi cables a command: get the boy to Kalapur, and get him there fast. But 300 miles of rebel-infested territory lie between the fort and Kalapur, and in crossing it a rescue party would stand about as much chance as a moth in a monsoon-unless, of course, the party is accompanied by an ingenious scriptwriter (Robin Estridge) with a trunk full of assorted jaws of death, nicks of time, hair's breadths, fell swoops, stiff upper lips, white man's burdens and whys not to reason...
Died. James Allan Mollison, 54, Scottish aviator, first (in 1932) to fly the Atlantic solo from east to west (in a tiny de Havilland Puss Moth monoplane) ; of pneumonia ; in London. A Royal Air Force pilot while still in his teens, Jimmy Mollison went on to set a flock of post-Lindbergh records, including Australia-England (1931) in 8 days, England-Cape Town (1932) in less than 5, and, with First Wife Amy Johnson Mollison, also a headlined pilot, England-India (1934) in 22 hours (not a record...
...Most moths are not pests in themselves, but their larvae are-e.g., the larvae of the gypsy moth destroy thousands of trees every year. Butenandt's discovery opens the way to a new attack on such pests. Insecticides kill off useful insects along with the pests. But if the sex attractant for one particular species can be isolated and synthesized, its males can be attracted, trapped, and killed without harming useful insects...