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Within an hour after Fighting Frenchman Georges Catroux arrived in Algiers last week (see col. 1), the Giraud Government announced the dismissal of Jacques Lemaigre-Dubreuil, a French industrialist (peanut oil) who had taken a devious but potent hand in North African affairs...
Died. Steve Vasilakos, 58, the nation's most publicized peanut vendor (outside the White House for 37 years); of a heart ailment; in Washington...
...Washington Carver, most famed Negro scientist; in Tuskegee, Ala. His age was uncertain: he was born of slaves about 1864. Coal-black, sad-eyed, fragile, white-polled, he spent most of his life in his Tuskegee Institute laboratory (originally assembled from scrapheap oddments) exploiting the possibilities of the soybean, peanut, sweet potato and cotton. From the peanut he developed more than 300 synthetic products (including cheese, soap, flour, ink, medicinal oils), from the sweet potato more than 100 (including tapioca, shoe polish, imitation rubber). "When I get an inspiration," he once explained simply, "I go into the laboratory...
...make such exasperating, excruciating noises that listeners turn to another station rather than be driven nuts. One favorite Axis jamming signal is a series of musical tones repeated interminably, as if a mad vibraphonist were banging away rapidly with one mallet. Another sounds like a collection of piercingly shrill peanut whistles...
Flinty Judge Orion Thomas Gower, a strict disciplinarian, felt it was high time to hand down a lesson. He had lost his patience: it was ridiculous, he said, for the Government to ask housewives to save fats when thousands of tons of cottonseed oil and peanut oil were lost for lack of farm hands. He sentenced Weston to a year on a chain gang, fined him $1,000. The imprisonment was stayed on condition that Weston leave the State within 24 hours, stay out for at least 18 months...