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Robert Benchley as an inebriated traveller is so pleasantly silly that he almost walks off with the movie. He has never been funnier and contributes just the touch needed to make China Seas a swell show instead of a mere tour do force in melodrama...
...cranium of Harvard's new head of the Student Council is beginning to swell badly. He has received has first official communique...
...thought this was pretty swell, a sure boomerang in fact, until we received the following reply yesterday...
Ordinary regal lilies are dehiscent: the pollen-bearing anthers swell, burst open, shower sticky golden dust on the blossoms, marring their virginal immaculacy. GE's lily, which owes its existence to Engineer Chester Newell Moore, is non-dehiscent. Mr. Moore was experimenting with the effects of x-rays on genes and chromosomes (heredity carriers in the germ-plasm). He irradiated 75 bulbs of regal lilies. Nothing noteworthy happened to the first generation, but among the second-generation freaks were two flowers whose anthers shriveled without releasing their pollen. From these two Engineer Moore obtained a true-breeding strain...
...United States is in imminent danger of a petroleum shortage which will swell imports, send up prices of motor fuel, and force a more general use of small, low-powered cars...