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...British Medical Research Council, an authoritative organization, did proclaim last week that "when conditions between children with and without [light] treatment is equalized, the result of light treatment is wholly negative." The only difference, declared the Council, between light treatment and mustard plasters, was that plasters were cheaper...
...another Progress Medalist is Director Charles Edward Kenneth Mees of the Eastman Kodak Research Laboratory; in 1913, for work done in his native England. Medalist Sheppard is the man who discovered that "if the cows didn't eat mustard plant, we could have no movies" -a trace of sulphur compound in gelatine being essential to the speed of silver halide reactions in photography.-ED. Harding's Portrait...
...FIELD OF MUSTARD-A. E. Coppard-Knopf ($2.50). Short-Storyteller Coppard, nut-brown pantheist, transcribes life in hedgerow England with a simplicity that seems accurate and genuine. His overtones are of something dark, gentle, gypsyesque. Some themes: an errant stag and a hearty poacher; lusty village women, lying in a mustard field after fagot-gathering, wish that love could return; the noblesse oblige of a lonely schoolmaster and a proud lady; two aging, air-plant spinsters and how one of them nearly took root in village soil...
Watts Gunn beat W. G. Brownlow. Brownlow was obviously stale, almost as stale as Tolley. Gunn, keen as mustard, won hole after hole, finished...
...TIME found Mr. Frankau's latest novel, Masterson, "a novel-reader's novel, splashed with color ... a good man's education in riches, passion, love." (TIME, May 3.) Other Frankau novels: Men, Maids and Mustard-Pot; Peter Jackson, Cigar Merchant; Life and Erica...