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Instead of a fair assessment of comparative merit, there was a crucifixion. Oratory was impaled on sentiment. Impartiality was considered the spawn of Communism...
...world like T. S. Eliot's Wasteland-an end-of-the-world world where "in the muttering heat, the race of pygmies runs, worm's spawn beginning in the worm's shape, ending with the worm, pullulating, multiplying, and festering, conglomerating their littleness, spreading and aggrandizing it under the huge sun, joining together in a love that is the joining of the cloven maggot, engendering little hopes, little fears, throwing up small sprays of dust, spray by spray, till they have made a universe of dust." In vigorous poetic passages like this, I Live Under a Black...
Hollywood legend has it that when Director Ernst Lubitsch went there he could think of no better use for the many drawers of his huge, flat-top desk than to grow mushrooms in them. So he interlarded bricks of mushroom spawn and fresh horse manure in the drawers, drew many an inquisitive sniff from visitors but never produced a mushroom...
Mushrooms, he learned, are fungi developed from spores which float in the air, too small to be seen by the naked eye. By a process still kept secret, he isolated mushroom spores in little bottles where they developed into spawn in a mixture of sifted manure. Nowadays the Jacob laboratories sell these whitish-brown lumps for 50? a quart ready for planting. The Jacob plant gets most of its manure which must be from "horses which are working hard and fed with grain and mixed feeds only," from Philadelphia and Baltimore, pays about $6.50 per ton, uses 20,000 tons...
Jacob mushrooms grow in concrete, aluminum-painted "houses" which are filled with beds of manure compost and kept pitch-dark. Lumps of spawn are pushed into the compost about eight inches apart. In three weeks fine, white, hairlike mycelia extend from top to bottom. Then a "casing" of loam is put on top and in three weeks more the first white pinheads pop out. Each bed bears well for two or three months. Then the tired manure is stripped off, sold to golf courses as a top dressing for $1.50 a ton. The mushrooms themselves, fat, firm and thick...