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...Thoroughbreds Don't Cry" presents the thrilling spectacle of the weak child hero who rises to the occasion at the crisis, rides his horse to a spectacular victory in the big race, foils the crooks, and converts his wayward jockey friend into a straight shootin', honest guy (tomato"). Ronald Sinclair as the boy-hero is a carbon copy of Freddie Bartholomew, English accent...
Last week Dr. Philip Rodney White of the Rockefeller Institute's Princeton laboratories took a long stride toward solving the problem, and incidentally spilled much wind from the sails of the cohesion theorists, by announcing that he had found enormous pressures in the roots of tomato plants-pressures high enough to serve tomato plants hundreds of feet tall. The trouble with previous pressure experiments, it appeared, was that they were made on dead or dying roots. At Princeton, Dr. White has an apparatus which keeps detached roots alive indefinitely by supplying them with nutrient fluid. When he attached glass...
...colorblind, cannot drive a car. Once, walking with his brother in Boston, he saw a golf club in a store window. They bought it, went home and looked up golf in the encyclopedia, then experimented in the back yard with the one club, a ball and two tomato cans...
Food for the evening consisted of grapefruit, New York style, cream of tomato, patty of lobster Newburg, new peans, potato croquette, Harvard Club special ice cream, petits fours, and demi tasse. When it was all over, and cigars had passed around the speeches started, at 9 o'clock...
...have been waiting a long time for a logical explanation of Surrealism's right to exist; not its existence, mind, but its right to exist. Any kid can sling a ripe tomato, three rotten eggs and a jackknife at a square of wallboard and get a bang-up Surrealistic effect. But is that...