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...That's the secret," came back Il Duce, pointing to a plate on which lay a peach, a pear and a bunch of grapes. "Fruit! Fruit! FRUIT...
...roast, spaghetti or chicken, uncorks the Vesuvian wine and the five & guests sit down for a noisy, two-hour meal. Horatio usually washes the dishes afterward. All talk well, laugh easily. Frequent guests at these Renaissance meals are New York's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia who calls Attilio "Uncle Peach" and John D. Rockefeller Jr. whom "Uncle Peach" calls Mr. Rockefeller...
These last week were incidents of the most famed horse race in the U. S., the Kentucky Derby, run for the Gist year, watched by a crowd of 60,000, some standing on peach baskets and some in $50 seats, over a mile-and-a-quarter track at Churchill Downs, Louisville...
...York City's Bronx Zoo, a rare Himalayan bear ate a peach. The pit stuck in his small intestine, killed him. A hippopotamus gulped a tube of toothpaste, grew violently ill. In the stomach of a cassowary dead of indigestion were found a golf ball, a metal doll, twelve pop bottle tops, a vanity case...
...mysterious "mosaic disease" or "yellows" which attacks peach trees, tobacco, sugar cane, cucumbers, potatoes, tomatoes, lettuce, spinach, corn, sugar beets, asters, dahlias et al. was found by Dr. Louis Otto Kunkel to be carried from plant to plant by a small insect called the leafhopper. Dr. Kunkel also discovered that the leafhopper very rarely flew more than three or four feet above the earth. Obvious leafhopper foil: a 4-ft. screen fence. In early autumn a plot of asters thus protected was only 20% diseased whereas 80% of the flowers just outside the fence were damaged. Last week Dr. Kunkel...