Word: pavan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). Love, marriage and financial trouble in a tenement section of Brooklyn. With Marisa Pavan...
...into Genoa about 13 years ago were some unlisted travelers -small tropical ants named Iridomyrmex humilis. Spreading rapidly from their beachhead, the tiny invaders took on the heftiest ants of Italy, annihilated them by the colony. Putting them under the microscope, University of Pavia's Zoologist Mario Pavan got to their secret: a sac of grey, waxy poison in the anal gland...
...Pavan called his discovery Iridomyrmecin. By 1948 he had reduced it to its pure crystalline form, reported that Iridomyrmecin was deadly to many insects but harmless to man. It showed signs of being highly effective against the germs producing typhus, cholera and tuberculosis...
...choices were excellent, ranging from the chromatic Forlorne Hope, in which Bream showed he could "pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow," through the expressive Sir John Langton's Pavan--the finest gem of the evening--to the syncopated and almost jazzy Earl of Essex's Galliard...
After a while, even M. Charles begins to gag on life Chez Pavan, offers his own desperate diagnosis: "Perhaps I should go to an alienist...