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...news editors, on whom the Japanese pulled one of the smartest publicity stunts in history last week (see p. 55), were not noticeably reproached for it in their own columns. On the radio, which has no headlines to worry about, they were. Said CBS's placid Bill Shirer...
...Smartest way for man to fight the insects who rival him for the earth's bounty is to turn insect against insect. The wasp Microbracon mellitor assassinates boll weevils (which last year destroyed 12-14% of the South's cotton), so this week an army of these stiletto-bearing flyers is being propagated at the University of Texas.* The Texas wasp dashes among cotton rows, seeks out bolls full of weevil larvae, plunges her stiletto into each grub, forces an egg through the hollow tube into each paralyzed victim, then flits on to another boll. In two days...
...time when it could ill afford to lose top-flight airmen, the U.S. Army had lost one of its best. Missing somewhere in California's San Joaquin Valley was square-jawed Major General Herbert A. Dargue, 55, chief of-the First Air Force, rated by many the smartest air strategist in the U.S. Missing along with him in the 21-passenger, bimotored transport that served as his command plane were five other Air Force officers, two privates...
...smartest museum in the U.S. is St. Paul's (Minn.), which last week had on tour a map show called "Can America Be Bombed?," at home a map show called "Strategic Elements of Naval Warfare...
...affection, like Brooklyn people talking about the Dodgers. Sometimes they say it with gleeful malice, as they recount President Quezon's latest prankish maneuver against austere, high-minded Francis Sayre, U.S. High Commissioner. Sometimes they say it with pride-their shrewd, peppery, uncontrollable Quezon, their cleverest politician, their smartest poker player, their smoothest ballroom dancer, their best-dressed man, their orator, their constant winner by overwhelming votes, their patriot, their President...