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...Peach & a Pear. One morning last week, the North Philadelphia station looked like five minutes to Judgment Day as some 1,500 happy and expectant followers of the two leaders waited for the Pennsylvania Railroad's Red Arrow bearing the Prophet. When it arrived, things nearly got out of hand...
...decreed a light breakfast. Prophet Jones stared at the array of fruits and fruit juices, eggs cooked in every style, ham, sausages, bacon and pastries. He eats only one meal a day, and that after 9:30 p.m., he explained, and nibbled sparingly on a peach and a pear...
Tree Doctor. Chas. Pfizer & Co. of Brooklyn has developed a new antibiotic drug* for trees and plants that cures such previously fatal plant diseases as fire blight (in apple and pear trees) and halo blight (in beans). Agrimycin, a compound of streptomycin and terramycin, is absorbed into the plants' systems just as antibiotics penetrate the human blood stream. The drug will be available in quantity by March...
...first few years, Brandau and Kooser seeded typical hail clouds, and no hail hit the valley's prize fruit. The skeptics called it coincidence. But, after three unspoiled harvests, the skeptics were almost convinced. Then, in August 1952, a hailstorm ripped the pear crop to shreds...
...Fairbanks Presents (Wed. 10:30 p.m., NBCTV) is a filmed drama series made in Britain with a high professional polish. But the competence of the first show, a playlet dealing with an insurance agent falsely accused of murder and attempted rape, was overshadowed by the glossy commercials delivered in pear-shaped tones by Douglas Fairbanks Jr. himself, and including asides on the Magna Carta and the American Revolution, and the suggestion that the international set is rapidly abandoning pink champagne in favor of the more dizzying delights of Rheingold beer...