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...water worms by the billion, more worms than can be found in any similar region on the Atlantic Coast. For years Maine clamdiggers made a sideline of digging worms for bait, considered them chiefly a damnuisance because during the breeding season from April to June salt water blood-worms sting like bees. Then somebody discovered that when properly packed the worms would stay alive for two days, could be shipped to fishermen in other States. In the last five or six years Maine's worm business has grown by leaps & bounds until this summer it has a turnover...
...expresses what the sympathetic reader feels about such a Wellsian book as Star-Begotten. And occasionally, as a good journalist may, Wells's burbling, suggestive, enthusiastic talk strikes out a suddenly poetic phrase that rings in the memory: "With their hard, clear minds and their penetrating, unrelenting questions stinging our darkness as the stars sting...
...Poele, who wears a bathing suit while tending his own bees, has been stung almost daily for eleven years, considers himself totally immune to bee poison.* But physicians say that, like other persons who have developed ordinary bee immunity, he too could be killed instantly by a single sting on a vulnerable spot, the jugular vein, perhaps, or a major nerve...
...Imperfectly understood, death by bee sting is thought due to a special poison secreted by particular insects, possibly diseased. Apisination should be treated by gently removing the stinger, washing the wound with a weak solution of ammonia or soda, applying antiseptic. Bleeding should be encouraged...
...Representatives were not certain that Recovery had drawn the political sting of Dr. Francis E. Townsend and his old-age pension plan until last election day. On Nov. 5, 48 hr. after the votes were in, the U. S. District Attorney in Washington announced that he would move at once to prosecute Dr. Townsend for walking out on a House investigating committee last spring (TIME, June 1, Dec. 14). Last week in Washington's Federal District Court the lanky old pensioneer went to trial. A onetime aide testified that Dr. Townsend and his O.A.R.P. directors had planned the walkout...