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...Cecil Day Lewis "an electric drill with the electricity left out." She and Osbert presented prizes to "the authors most representative of the tedious literature of the age." Novelist Henry Williamson got a stuffed fish; Biographer Harold Nicolson two stuffed kittens; the literary editor of the London Spectator 27 moth balls. Edith, by her own account, "in early youth took an intense dislike to . . . every kind of sport except reviewer-baiting...
...Army gets a bright blue blood transfusion this week. The historic old Light Infantry Blues of Richmond, Va. put their fancy-dress uniforms into moth balls, were inducted into the Army, prepared to start a year's training at Fort Meade as the First Battalion 176th Infantry. In the next two weeks two more noted socialite units will be inducted: Philadelphia's First Troop City Cavalry and Manhattan's swank Seventh Regiment (207th Coast Artillery). Clad in regulation olive drab, they will be in camp by the end of the month...
Nattily attired in a moth-eaten muffler and ear-muffs, C. Walton Jenks, Jr. '43, of Eliot House and Manchester, New Hampshire, was among those seen skimming over the icy surface of the Charles yesterday afternoon...
...selling, then started a one-room Bricklaying College of America with an unemployed Assyrian bricklayer as the faculty. Moving into show business he ran a road show whose star was a trained penguin, wrote gags for Hellzapoppinjays Olsen & Johnson. For the Chicago World's Fair he devised a moth-&-flame dance in which the flame left the moth in the nude (several moths got burned in rehearsals). Thereafter he produced Broadway flops, sold Santa Claus paraphernalia to stores, raised enough money to produce his sensational Hot Mikado with Bill ("Bojangles") Robinson in the lead. Then came his New York...
...Americas to see what the prickly pear's natural enemies were. The agents investigated about 150 insects that feed on cactus and nothing else, set a few of the most promising to work in Australia. By far the most potent destroyer proved to be a little moth borer, Cactoblastis cactorum. The larvae of this insect eat the inside of the pear plant, even the roots, and their depredations promote rotting due to bacteria and fungi. Armed with strings of moth borer eggs glued to strips of paper, fieldworkers swarmed through prickly pear land, pinned their deadly eggs...