Word: pollens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...High School dance band. When it began to look more like a rut than a groove, 17-year-old Piano Player Johnny ("Curley") Williams (named after his drummer father) broke away and formed his own quintet. He took with him Mel Sidney, a bullfiddle slapper like his dad, Al Pollen. Other recruits were 16-year-old Perry ("Bunny") Bodtkin, the trombone-playing son of Bing Crosby's guitar accompanist, and Gene Estes and Don Ingle. "Boy," says Curley, "we yanked the nucleus right out of that Hollywood High band...
...pistil of an alfalfa flower is a strong spring held in tension by two "keel petals." When the bee alights on the petals, the pistil snaps up and out. This process ensures cross-fertilization by showering the bee with pollen and spanking other pollen loose from the bee's body...
...sound scientific ground, says Swartz. Unhappiness at home or office can cause allergic reaction that results, for instance, in asthma. Swartz tells of a garment manufacturer whose asthma became almost unbearable every spring, and then improved in the fall. It was not a case of pollen sensitivity, as the victim thought, but worry over his business sense. In March he made up his samples and started to worry; by September, he knew that his judgment about them had been all right...
...Journal of the American Medical Association, may be set off by an allergy. Starting out three years ago to find out what causes gout, Dr. Harkavy noticed that it attacks its victims most frequently in the spring and fall. He thinks he has found one of the answers in pollen from grass and trees in the spring, from ragweed in the fall. Pollen, he says, can be the trigger that sets off a series of reactions that wind up as a pain in the big toe; it may be pollen by itself, or in combination with certain foods, plain...
...Tiffany Thayer. In 1931 they formed the Fortean Society, dedicated to "the frustration of science." The society, which has no real magnetic field, just a gelatinous shell, petered out, leaving science no more frustrated than usual. But the tradition goes on. Next time the rain washes dust or pollen or algae out of the air, some newspaper will probably report that "scientists were mystified." They often are, but not by green rain...