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...MOON CHILDREN, by Michael Wellman. Reportedly an outstanding play, based on its author's life at Brandeis. I fully intend to see it, even though this will mean breaking with my customary procedure of staying home and making snide remarks instead...
...MOON CHILDREN, by Michael Wellman. Reportedly an outstanding play, based on its author's life at Brandeis. I fully intend to see it, even though this will mean breaking with my customary procedure of staying home and making snide remarks instead. Previews tomorrow through Monday (slightly cheaper than next week), 7:30 at the New Theater, 12 Holyoke Street...
...disease is almost impossible to contain. The minute spores are tough, long-lived and prolific: each tiny fungus spot on the leaf may produce 50,000 new spores. They can hitchhike easily by almost any conveyance: insects, birds, even raindrops. U.S. Plant Pathologist Frederick Wellman suspects that the spores may be carried all the way across the Atlantic by storms that form off Africa, where the rust has been a problem for many years. Airborne spores have been found 2,000 feet above infected plants. Man himself is probably a carrier. A heavy outbreak in the Brazilian state of Bahia...
...acre test plot with new varieties of coffee plants, hoping to find some that will be more resistant to the fungus than Coffea arabica, the most popular type grown in Brazil. Unfortunately, researchers have not yet perfected a variety that combines disease resistance with good taste. So far, says Wellman, "the coffee that the fungus loves best is also the one we like best...
Died. Charles A. Wellman, 54, president of the $1 billion LFC Financial Corp., and one of the country's foremost doctors of ailing companies; in Los Angeles. When Wellman took over from Bart Lytton in 1968, the huge ($685 million assets) but debt-ridden Lytton Financial Corp. was on the verge of bankruptcy. The new president refinanced and borrowed $50 million, largely on the strength of his reputation, then audaciously merged with two smaller savings and loan firms, thereby increasing assets by an additional $370 million. Said an admiring competitor at the time: "Wellman is converting three alley cats...