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John Lewis' one objective may be a very simple one: just to be in the limelight. Throughout the years, like a potbellied moth, he has courted the flame of publicity. History, while recording his contributions-his gains for his miners; his great exposition of the idea of industrial unionization, his usually peerless strategy-may also record that he was one of U.S. labor's greatest charlatans...
Insecticides, says Dr. Wigglesworth, are subject to the law of diminishing returns. Over the years more & more chemicals are needed to do the same job. Two arsenical washes once controlled the coding moth on apple trees; now five to seven are needed in the same orchards. Four years ago tartar emetic was hailed as the new and perfect control for citrus thrips in California. Within two years a more hardy variety of thrips appeared and tartar emetic ceased to work. Dr. Wigglesworth suspects that even powerful DDT may begin to need some extra strength one of these days...
...DEVIL IN THE BUSH - Matthew Head - Simon & Schuster ($2). On Hooper Taliaferro's military mission into the Congo he stumbles across a marvelously carved ceremonial knife, two beautiful women and an evil old man. Un fortunately, this fine, assorted bag of jungle specimens includes one moth-eaten item: a thin, conventional plot of seduction and murder that has been used inumpteen whodunits with less glamorous settings. Verdict: fair...
Christmas In Connecticut (Warners), for all its rattle and redolence of mothballs, is thoroughly moth-eaten. The caprice involves Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet, S. Z. Sakall and a couple of babies who, though too young to know any better, are going to have quite a time living it down. The predicament: Miss Stanwyck, a highly publicized writer of recipes for a woman's magazine, has been pretending to her avid public (and to her honest publisher, Mr. Greenstreet) that she is a Connecticut country housewife, mother and cook. When the publisher insists that she entertain...
...News did it by declaring editorially: "If [Churchill] and his party don't win this election there is no gratitude in England." In seeming to praise Churchill, the Anglophobic News had a more obvious than devious design: to iterate its moth-eaten theory that Churchill tricked the U.S. into the war. The famed Manchester Guardian saw a chance to spank the brat...