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...when his flock became restive, a shepherd boy in 10th century France left his bread and goat's-milk cheese behind him in a cave near the village of Roquefort. Weeks later the boy came back to see what had become of his lunch. The bread was a lost cause, but the cheese was covered with green mold that proved highly edible. The result: mankind began eating Roquefort cheese...
...University of Wisconsin, tried using ultraviolet light to irradiate cheese-starting materials, the bacteria cultures that are curdled in milk to give cheeses their individual flavors. Knight turned his findings over to University of Minnesota scientists, who began the job of making a new cheese. Their base was the shepherd boy's familiar mold, now called Penicillium roquejortii...
When Colonel Frank Schwable, U.S.M.C., arrived in Washington last month, he promptly went around to pay his respects to Marine Commandant Lemuel Shepherd. Schwable never got past the front office; hard-bitten Lem Shepherd angrily refused to see him. Last week the Marine Corps announced that an investigation was under way in the case of Colonel Schwable, Annapolis man, regular marine of 24 years' outstanding service and the highest-ranking American P.W. in Korea to confess to the Communist fantasies of germ warfare...
...ballet compositions of his contemporaries sound like music for setting-up exercises. In all, he turned out about 20 operettas and operas (including Lakmé) and several ballets (Coppélia and La Source). For Sylvia (written in 1876), Delibes used a 16th century story of a Greek shepherd who falls in love with one of Diana's huntresses. She repulses him until the god Eros steps in. In a scene reminiscent of The Perils of Pauline, a robber khan ab ducts Sylvia, but with the help of the gods, and oblations from peasants, shepherds and huntresses the lovers...
Since last April, when the garden opened, its sculpture has been well worth looking at. Maillol's recumbent nude, The River, lies with her hair touching the surface of a pool; in a dominant center position stands a roughly molded, magnificent bronze by Pablo Picasso, Shepherd Holding a Lamb, which proves that Picasso can be a lot more forceful in 3-D than in some of his two-dimensional painted abstractions. There is also Jacob Epstein's majestic, reposeful Madonna and Child, an anguished Horse by Italy's Marino Marini, and a skeletal abstraction, Double Standing Figure...