Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shen-Nung and Captain Mease. Biggest soybean wonder is not its dizzy upward climb among U.S. crops but the late start it got. Botanists and chemists call it the world's most all-round useful crop. Yet its widely publicized new industrial uses still consume only about 2% of the U.S. crop, most of which will go for purposes known to the Chinese as far back as 2838 B.C., when it was called China's greatest legume in a materia medica written by the Emperor Shen-Nung ("The Heavenly Farmer...
Citizens who still wonder whether the U.S. can and will be bombed had two pieces of news to think about last week...
...adroitly dumb Maisie. But she is leary of becoming too closely identified with the character. Says she: "I love Maisie, but I'm damned if I want to be Maisie forever. . . . When people on the street holler at you, 'Hi there, Maisie!', you begin to wonder whether you're Ann Sothern or just that nice bag Maisie...
...book, Adaptive Coloration in Animals (Oxford; $8.50). When it appeared in Britain, Cott was at once snapped up by the British armed forces to make their guns as inconspicuous as woodcocks, their tanks as bush bucks, their planes as pickerel. Sternly scientific, the book is more readable than popular "wonder books" of nature...
...Kingdom has been in his mind since boyhood, took eight months to rewrite four times. He writes with a fountain pen and a driving will. Writing is a "grey monotony of hell" punctuated by occasional outbursts of frayed nerves, while Cronin's three sons ("all named after saints") wonder "if the world wouldn't be better off without authors." Mrs. Cronin, also a doctor, who has a phenomenal memory for names, places, dates, checks the manuscript for errors...