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Failure & Success. "She effaces the memory of stouter prima donnas," wrote one critic during Maggie Teyte's barnstorming years with the Chicago Opera, the Boston and La Scala Opera Companies. Her favorite roles as Melisande in Pelleas and Melisande, Hansel in Hansel und Gretel, set off her charms to best advantage. Photographs of Maggie Teyte in knickers and sleek satin gowns with gold slippers were treasured items in the dens of U.S. dudes. Women crowded counters for "Maggie Teyte Perfume." But when she failed to snare a Metropolitan contract, Maggie Teyte shrewdly decided that her clear-toned, brilliantly controlled...
...other pests combined, the prospects are even brighter. Some promising weapons: ¶ A flamethrower. Used mainly on cotton, sugar cane and corn plantations, this tractor-drawn implement spurts a 2,200° flame along the ground between rows, burns off weeds without harming the stouter stalks of crop plants, costs only one-tenth as much as hoeing. ¶ Calcium cyanamide. This chemical, long used as fertilizer, has recently proved a potent weed destroyer when applied to the soil in extra-heavy doses before planting. Chief users so far: tobacco growers. ¶Oil. California vegetable growers who have tried spraying...
Then he emplaned for the U.S. in the silver-painted transport known as "Uncle Joe's Chariot." Few men had been stouter friends of China...
...shrewd and above all . . . wise . . . exceedingly kindly and gentle. . . . A child would like to sit in his lap and a dog would sidle up to him." Now Mr. Davies found his old acquaintance as amiable as ever, still wearing a military tunic and boots, but looking healthier, a trifle stouter. Certainly, said Joe Davies later, "he doesn't look like a man who is worried...
...Navy had a new PT (see cut), stouter and better armed than the "expendables" that made Navy legend in the Philippines and off Guadalcanal. But more important to PT Corner was the fact that big-ship men now recognized the thunder-throated little craft as something more than a nuisance to maintain...