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After Burke's broadcast, the Council reconvened and drew up a poll to scent out the students' view on the proper functions of the Council, in regard to service or advisory functions and the proportions of elected or appointed members...
...First scent of the bovine enterprise was whiffed by Princeton men, and simultaneously by the staff of the Daily Princetonian. Proof that "Prince" staffers have a nose for news came when 30-odd barns were discovered not far from the Princeton campus, wherein the manure is mixed, heated, steamed, pulverized, and blasted...
Another line of attack is lures. Scientists led by Dr. Walter Carter of the Pineapple Research Bureau have discovered that a chemical, methyl eugenol, has a fatal attraction for male flies. The experts do not know whether the males mistake the scent for females, or whether they think the stuff is good to eat, but in one week, 250,000 males swarmed into traps that had been baited with...
...broom closet of hell. Some critics went part way with Farrell's estimate of Willingham, but others rebuked the book as a discharge of childish hostility by a very young man. But when the book was twice taken to court for obscenity (and twice acquitted), readers caught the scent. End as a Man sold some 35,000 copies...
Hiss was subpoenaed and questioned. He denied knowing Chambers. Before the grand jury could reach any conclusions, the House Un-American Activities Committee caught the scent and acted. The committee subpoenaed Elizabeth Bentley, graduate of Vassar and, like Chambers, an ex-Communist courier. She named Government officials who, she said, had passed secret documents to her. Then the committee subpoenaed Chambers. He generally corroborated Miss Bentley's story, testified that Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Harry Dexter White, whom she named, was at the least a dupe of the C.P., and repeated not all but a number...