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...Hirschhorn, plant pathologist, is planning investigations in the biology of the smut fungi, and has alternate research scheduled for Harvard and the University of Minnesota...
From Scab to Smut. The war against wheat rust is at least as old as the ancient Egyptians. For 700 years the Romans propitiated a special god of stem rust, Robigo. But Elvin Stakman was one of the first to plumb the secrets of plant fungi growth. He discovered that every fungus contains a number of parasitic strains, and that a single fungus cell may produce thousands of varieties which look alike but differ in their plant tastes...
...example, when Marquis wheat was introduced, it stood off stem rusts but developed "head blighter scab"; Durham wheat overcame scab but succumbed to root rot. Kota, the next wheat hope, yielded to smut. Stakman, collaborating with the Department of Agriculture, has developed hardier & hardier wheat. But No. 56 has baffled him for 16 years...
Field's art resembles Chaplin's-who is Field's idol. It outlaws smut and disdains fast gags, relying on reality lightened by absurdity, on comedy deepened by pathos. But, unlike Chaplin, Field enhances his pantomime with a full set of voices and intonations and the widest mastery of English accents on the English stage. Field has gusto as well. "At last," wrote the Sunday Times's magisterial James Agate, "the stage has an actor who knows how to exuberate...
...Smut v. Fun. The Esquire case had gone well beyond the original issue of smut v. good, clean fun and was taking on a serious aspect for the U.S. press. Said New York's Daily News: "The next logical step [of the Administration] will be to go after publications printing things deemed politically obscene, meaning unfavorable to the Administration. . . . The press had better stand up and fight ... or it will cease to be a free press...