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...Cones & Rods. The retina (the screen upon which the lens of the eye casts the image) has two kinds of visual cells: cones, each with its direct line to the brain; rods connected in multiple to the optic nerve fibers. The cones give sharp, color vision, work in bright light only. The rods "gang up" faint and dim impressions in weak light, catch no color. Some animals have cones but apparently no color vision; no known color-seeing animals have rod cells alone...
Rule 3. He must be healthy and vigorous. He should be at ease with a fishing rod and shotgun; if possible, he should walk to work. Voters do not like to think of their President as a man subject to such drab ailments as the sniffles...
...rubber from any of the thousands of other rubber-bearing plants that have been studied. Cornell's Dr. Lewis Knudson has tried some 30 himself, says "No native plant can be recommended at present as a source of rubber." Swamp milkweed may yield 45 Ib. an acre; golden rod, 75 Ib.; Indian hemp not more than 25 Ib. The Russian dandelion (kok-sagyz), seeds of which were rushed to the U.S. from the U.S.S.R. a year ago, contains rubber of good quality, easily separated from the root, but farm labor shortage makes its cultivation impracticable...
...history, musically speaking. For jazz-lovers who like their music pure and uncommercial, "Wild Bill" Davison blows a fabulous trumpet at the Ken, 58 Warrenton St., just beyond the Met Theater in downtown Boston. With him is a truly "All-Star" band, featuring such the jazz-men as Rod Cless, clarinet, James P. Johnson, piano, and Sandy Williams, trombone...
...better knwon men in the band is clarinetist Rod Cless, for his work on the iabulous Muggsy Spanier Ragtimers' records. Perhaps his cool, limpid tone is not as immediately satisfying as PeeWee Russell's hoarser clarinet, but after repeated hearings, Rod is just as exciting. He plays a fine, clear melodic line that is remmiscent of Johnny Dodds...