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...gets radio awards by the baker's dozen. This week she will get "one of the sweetest of them all." The society of Audubon Artists will honor her for making the most "notable contribution to radio" in the last year. The dividend: her portrait painted free by Maximilian A. Rasko, who has done Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and a heap of crowned heads...
...males become sex-conscious five hours after emerging from their pupal cases. But Anopheles males are moody. Sometimes the sweetest hum will not excite them. With antennae removed, both Aedes and Anopheles males are nonresponsive. If a female beats her wings at the wrong rate, she hums the wrong pitch, never acquires a mate...
...search of the sweetest possible name for its secret police, the Kremlin has given that dread body its fourth title since December 1917. Once the CHEKA (Extraordinary Commission), then GPU (State Political Management), 1922-34, then NKVD (People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs), 1934-46, it is now MGB (Ministry of State Security). Said the proverb-loving Russians on hearing the news: Khren ne slashche redki ("Horseradish is not sweeter than radish...
...annual teachers' ball, Cora dances mostly with her husband, who is one of the sweetest waltzers in the copper country, and also tries jitterbiigging. They are patently in love with each other-and with their profession. Said Fred Jeffers last week: "It's a fine life...
...many another bandleader has tried to imitate what Lombardo calls his organ tone, his publicity man calls "the sweetest music this side of heaven," and others call just this side of mooing. Imitators have had their men tune off key, nick their reeds and pour warm milk into the bells of their saxophones, but they have never quite hit it. Guy says his sweet simple music is "for people already in love or potentially in love. . . . We try not to displease anyone...