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...current Entomological News, Dr. Rudolf G. Schmieder of the University of Pennsylvania told how science has learned these signs and put them to use. First to interpret the bee law of dance and scent was Professor Karl von Frisch of the University of Munich. Near a hive he placed a square of cardboard perfumed with bergamot oil, and on it a dish full of sugar syrup. Fifty yards away he arranged a row of cards. None offered syrup, but each had a different scent. One was oil of bergamot...
...similar trickery, beemen can lure their bees to almost any flower. Red clover, for instance, is not particularly attractive. But if a few bees are fed syrup from a small dish resting on a pile of red clover blossoms, their dances and scent incite other bees to pollenate red clover, increasing its crop of seed...
Perfumes of all kinds sold heavily everywhere. Parfums Weil Paris Co. neatly fell into the effervescent mood of shoppers by introducing a new scent called "GriGri." It was designed to "replace . . . the blockbuster and the robot bomb" with "a dash of the inconsequential...
...George Messersmith has been in the diplomatic service 32 years-he had served in Canada, the Dutch West Indies, Belgium and Luxembourg before he went to Berlin. According to a colleague, he has "an uncanny nose that can smell an s.o.b. as far as the wind can carry the scent." He got the scent in Berlin almost immediately. In 1933 he wrote to Washington: "There is a real revolution here, and a dangerous situation." He was home, serving as Assistant Secretary of State, when the situation cracked in September...
...Terra picked up the scent last November. He made his first strike in an area that he had not considered promising: a handful of stone artifacts-scrapers, drills and flaked stones-projecting from the eroded wall of a ravine near Teotihuacan, northeast of Mexico City. With this unexpected encouragement, he went to Tequixquiac, a spot known to be rich in fossilized remains of animals. Dr. de Terra hoped this would yield traces of hunters as well...