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...Meyer of Brooklyn, manufacturer of Richelieu pearls; and Francis Ouimet, Boston's idol who was recently exalted to golf's brand-new Hall of Fame. With new working capital (Judge Landis had forbidden Grocer Adams to put any more sugar into the club), the Bees may sprout new wings, buzz up out of the second division for the first time in seven years...
Fire of another color fumed up last week in Washington. Ellison DuRant Smith Jr., 26, sprout of bag-eyed, walrusy Senator "Cotton Ed" of South Carolina, is clerk of the Senate Agriculture and Forestry Committee, whose chairman is old Cotton Ed. Young Mr. Smith, who has had the $3,900-a-year clerkship only eleven months, has been going to night classes at the National University Law School. When his draft number came up, he asked for deferment (to Class 2A) on the ground that he has a special employment status: he was indispensable to the Senate's Agriculture...
...experiment with the white magic of the Middle Ages. I will use all the modern means of mystification-loud-speakers, electric lights and wires and mechanisms." By last week Sponsor Crosby had had a grand piano hauled into the middle of the lake, where it was expected shortly to sprout water lilies, and Painter Dali had dunked a manikin near the shore and was trying to ornament her face with a fork...
Many a young man who would like to fly for the U. S. Army or Navy resents the supposed fact that only collegians can sprout wings. Last week the Army Air Corps had the best possible answer to this mistaken resentment: 412 examination papers, turned in by youngsters who had had less than two years in college and who had been allowed to take these tests instead, to get in line for cadetships...
According to the theory of immunity proposed by the great Paul ("Magic Bullet") Ehrlich, when foreign proteins enter the body, they try to enter into harmful chemical union with body cells. The cells sprout invisible, mysterious little things called antibodies which act as chemical grappling hooks. When an invading protein seizes a hook, the cell gets rid of its eneny by loosing the hook. If there are not enough hooks to cope with the invaders, the person falls...