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...whole is less able, it is often because alumni are the least realistic about their sons' chances for admission, and burden the Harvard admissions committee with applications which have been filed over the protests of the school's guidance officer. "We try to be good to Harvard," says Wesley G. Spencer at Brown and Nichols, "We're not always successful. There are always some alumni who think they have an inside track with the admissions committee and will apply anyway...
...Tree's hero Harry Wesley is an English Nobel-prizewinning biologist with a yen to help humanity. His secret weapon is desoxyribonucleic acid. Injected into a plant or tree, this chemical will increase phenomenally the size and quality of the yield. An enterprising Italian government official named Pozzo feels that this is just the cure for the barren poverty of southern Italy. Above the Bay of Salerno, on some terraced soil blessed by Pozzo's cardinal uncle, Harry Wesley sets out to grow a super...
...like Adam's apple, Wesley's fig has an unforeseen side effect: it is an aphrodisiac. The late naughty-witted Thorne (Turnabout) Smith might have fashioned some of the priapic victories that follow. Countesses, nurses and simple country girls are figtimized. When the secret gets out, it is an affair of church and state. Charges of scandal and nepotism rock the Vatican. After a sly display of irreverence, Author Menen turns soberside to point an improbably tedious moral: "Scientists are, by and large, up to no good . . . We stand in danger of having our lives twisted, our souls...
...Hampshire: Normally Republican, the state stayed that way, elected Republican Wesley Powell to fill the shoes of retiring Governor Lane Dwinell...
Pitchfork & Ax. A well-read frontier buff, Gruber admits that "in television scripts we distort things. Like in Wells Fargo we have Dale Robertson inventing the swivel holster when it was really invented by John Wesley Hardin. Or we have Belle Starr as a beautiful woman, when she really was a terrible looking...