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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Great Plains Experimental Range at Woodward, Okla., state and federal experimenters found that airplane-sprayed 2,4-D, the chemical that kills "broad-leaved" plants while leaving grasses unharmed, did a fine job of killing sagebrush. The treatment costs a little more than $2 an acre and destroys as much as 90% of the pest. On de-brushed range, cattle gain 75% more weight per acre, and sell for twice as much as if they had to hunt grass among sagebrush...
...65th opening night, the Metropolitan Opera hoped that "much of the glitter generally associated with the first-night audience [would] be secondary to that on the stage." General Manager Edward Johnson had scheduled an opener that was hard to beat: the late Richard Strauss's sure-fire Der Rosenkavalier, with a cast of "unusual interest," directed by the Met's most brilliant conductor, Fritz Reiner. But last week, when the great night rolled around again, the off stage competition was as usual just too tough...
...doubt Actress Cornell was sufficiently charmed by the part to shut her eye to the play. Ana allows her a fine actressy evening in black velvet and white brocade; she suffers, poor woman, almost as much as the audience. The other players have not so much roles as rigmaroles, which cannot be acted, but only hammed. Henry Daniell hams best, as the King...
...Morris Fishbein, long the big mouthpiece of the American Medical Association and self-appointed spokesman of organized U.S. medicine, finally found his forum cut from under him. Since his A.M.A. bosses clamped a tight muzzle on him last summer (TIME, June 20), it had not been much of a forum. This week, well aware that he was no longer welcome in it, Morris Fishbein resigned the editorship of the Journal and half a dozen other A.M.A. publications...
...modern theory of a "colon corrective" is expounded by the Mayo Clinic's Dr. J. Arnold Bargen in the current Gastroenterology. Dr. Bargen recommends methylcellulose, which will correct either constipation or diarrhea. It can also do much, he says, to repair the harm done by laxative chemicals. Dr. Bargen concedes that "constipation is probably the most common of all physical complaints." In modern smooth diets, often deficient in fruits and vegetables, most food is absorbed in the small intestine and not enough bulk reaches the colon to cause automatic muscle contraction (peristalsis). The thing to do, says Dr. Bargen...