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Endeavoring to explode old wives' tales about how to tell a poison mushroom (one wrong example: if it turns a piece of silver black), newspapers warned amateur mycologists to take their harvests to experts for inspection. The appeals for caution had their echo in distant Washington, where Eugene Batisse, French-born chef at Le Bistro, the U.S. capital's popular restaurant and New Frontier hangout, took his family on a tragic mushroom-picking expedition in Rock Creek Park, near their suburban Chevy Chase home. Afterward, Mme. Batisse fried the crop in oil and garlic and served...
...Condemned of Altona. Hating Hitlerism is like opposing poison ivy. It is a sensible thing to do, but at this late date it is a difficult thing to do in an original or even interesting way. In The Condemned of Altona, a five-act drama produced four years ago in Paris, Philosopher-Playwright Jean-Paul Sartre almost turned the trick. His play transformed turgid history into skillful theater and tired slogans into existential epigrams. This film, adapted freely from the drama, presents even more impressive credentials. It is directed by Vittorio De Sica. It stars, along with Fredric March...
...almost anybody. Commonest are Damsels at $2, Angels and Butterflies at $6 to $10 apiece. Sea horses cost about $3. But temptations abound. How exciting to make a pet of a toothy moray from Ceylon ($35), or a lion fish from the Red Sea ($35), who packs enough deadly poison in his spiny ugliness to kill a man. How exhilarating to be first kid on the block with a $400 trigger fish from Zanzibar...
...California legislature a bill requiring the C.D.C. and similar groups to serve notice on all political advertisements that they are "unofficial" political organizations-and to specify, in large type, that such "notice to voters is required by law." Moans C.D.C. President Thomas Carvey: "This is a sort of poison label. It implies that there's something wrong with the endorsement -just as you might start worrying about a can of food if it carried that kind of notice...
...which causes severe mental retardation. (At least 5,000 of the 5.5 million mentally retarded in the U.S. are PKU victims.) Because of a defective gene inherited from both parents, a PKU baby cannot make use of phenylalanine, which is found in most protein foods, and the poison that accumulates in his system as a result permanently damages the brain. But if PKU is detected early enough, a special diet will avert nearly all the damage. The difficulty lies in early detection. In the laboratory, the blood spots on the filter paper will reveal...