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...Igor ("Cholly Knickerbocker") Cassini, in the Journal American, or good-natured Joseph X. Dever in the World-Telegram, or bland Nancy Randolph in the Daily News, or even the entertainingly abrasive "Suzy" (Aileen Mehle) in the Mirror. The fascinating intelligence that Mercedes de Footwork had lunch at the Purple Tulip is good for a line any time. No one may have heard of either Mercedes or the Tulip, but after both have been mentioned a dozen times and absorbed with faithful mindlessness by the people who read "the columns," Mercedes may get some invitations and the Tulip some customers...
...young princes with eligible princesses. Queen Juliana democratically lodged all 130 guests at Amsterdam's plush Amstel Hotel instead of scattering them through her own draughty palaces. (Hotel bill: $7,000.) She showed equal sense when it turned out that a royal expedition to the famed Keukenhof tulip fields would have to buck traffic jams swollen by a European soccer cup final in Amsterdam. Instead of sending her guests by car or state coach, Juliana packed them into three buses, each specially equipped with a bar. and the riders looked for all the world like Greyhound passengers rattling through...
Lost Lust. In the Orwellian world of ANC there will be no telephone exchanges to take pride of comfort in. Philadelphia's old-guard PEnnypacker and stalwart FIdelity will be gone; San Francisco will lose its lusty KLondike and sunny VAlencia; Mobile's TUlip will wither alongside Cincinnati's BRamble and Santa Fe's YUcca. Fenton, MO., will be torn from it's cozy FIreside, while Chester, Pa., and its saucy GYpsy will be parted. NIghtingale and HYacinth will nevermore breathe their poetry over Brooklyn's wires. The sands are running out fpr such...
...Tulip." Thanks largely to chemists like Stanley (who now runs the University of California's Virus Laboratory) and the electron microscopists, a virus can now be defined as an infectious particle that has no metabolism of its own and reproduces itself only by taking over the metabolic processes of the living cell it invades. Viruses are the ultimate parasites. They parasitize everything in nature from bacteria and flowering plants up through invertebrates such as mosquitoes, and the vertebrates from fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals...
There is no such thing as a beneficial virus, though some do no harm. Whenever a virus has a detectable effect, it is bad. All healthy tulips are solid-colored. The tulip-streak (or "breaking") virus creates variegated color patterns of great beauty in the eye of the human beholder (and of great cash value to Dutch growers). But, says Stanley, "if you have the tulip-streak virus and you happen to be a tulip, you're sick.'' This lack of evident purpose in viruses leaves teleological philosophers at a loss. Yet viruses must have influenced evolution...