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Since the death of Poland's Marshal Joseph Pilsudski there has been no picturesque, magnetic figure in Eastern Europe to compare with Hungary's Admiral Nicholas Horthy. He lives with quarterdeck simplicity in a small palace on the heights of Buda overlooking Pest, rules with the title of "His Serene Highness the Regent of the Kingdom of Hungary," gives the most brilliant balls in Europe in the Habsburg Palace across the way from his own, but never sleeps on the premises of the King and Emperor who does not exist in fact, although by legitimate inheritance the throne...
...nature," explained Dr. Wendell Holmes Tisdale, "there is no such thing as a pest. But in human economy, anything that competes with man for his means of subsistence may be considered a pest...
...Tisdale, a big, florid Alabaman of 45, is director of Du Font's new anti-pest laboratory which was formally opened last week in the suburbs of Wilmington, and of which the formal name is Pest Control Research Section, Grasselli Chemicals Department, E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. A handful of newshawks assembled in the gleaming Nemours building, lunched with Lammot du Pont, who shook each one's hand, spent the afternoon in the battleship-grey laboratory, wound up at the Hotel du Pont...
...most important division in the anti-pest laboratory is that of Moths & Flies. From outsiders with anti-moth ideas it is already being flooded with more telephone calls and mail than its staff members have time to answer. Most commercial moth repellents are fluorine compounds or cinchona alkaloids of the quinine family. At the Du Pont laboratory, experiments have been carried on with these and scores of other chemicals. What they hope to find eventually is a moth-killer which will impregnate a fabric like dye, will not be removed by washing or dry-cleaning. Moths eat almost any animal...
...Harwood stage piece "Man in Possession". It gives them little to go on, and they get even by giving it little in return. It is all about a black sheep, lovable as all black sheep are, who pursues his nincompoop brother's fiancee, first as a pest, then as a sheriff's deputy, and then as a butler. Of course the respectable brother doesn't want her any more when he finds she's a pauperess, so the black sheep gets her and all is bliss...