Christmas Gift Guide From the Saturday Review of Literature
Rochelle Gibson surveys 18 new or reissued holiday books spanning anthologies biographies and children’s titles. Highlights include The World’s Greatest Christmas Stories edited by Eric Posselt and The Second St Nicholas Anthology edited by Henry Steel Commander with Christmastime editions from Goodspeed Mason and Van Wyck Mason among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eric Posselt
Fritz Kredel
Prentice-Hall
St. Nicholas
Henry Steel Commander
Random House
St. Nicholas Magazine
Edgar Johnson Goodspeed
Jesus
Harper
Jesus Christ
Ferdinand Prat
S.J
Bruce
John Haynes Holmes
Community Church
New York
John Barkham
Saturday Review Book Service
Dartmouth
Roy B. Chamberlin
Herman Feldman
Houghton, Mifflin
Donees
George Washington
Macmillan
G. B. Stern
Helen Waddell
Marguerite Northrup
Pantheon
Metropolitan Museum of Art
National Gallery of Art
Radioactive Mosquitoes Aid Medical Research
In California a project tag stamped about 500000 mosquito larvae with radioactive phosphorus to study flight range and life span. Dr Wilton Halverson says three larva groups in treated tanks near Turlock emerged as adults and about one in a thousand of local mosquitoes tested with a geiger counter carried the radioactive tag.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Atomic Energy Commission
Wilton I. Halverson
State Public Health Department
Turlock
Calif
Mosquito Spread From Atomic Test Reaches 1000 Acres
Report notes the insect dispersion occurred two miles downwind and slightly less upwind, covering about 1,000 acres with fairly even spread.
Insects Win DDT Battle in Timber and Cities
Insect experts report progress against spruce bud worm in Washington and Oregon timber, with 95 percent spray effectiveness and 2,250,000 acres infected before treatment valued at $63,000,000. The war on the common house fly in cities lags. The American Entomologists and Entomological Society meet in Denver with 21 speakers. Seven spray planes were lost during the large operation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
U.P
American Association of Entomologists
Entomological Society of America
J. M. Whiteside
Portland, Ore
Forest Insect Laboratory
Washington
Oregon
Whiteside
Fly insecticide resistance eyed by UC Riverside scientist
Turson Baily reports on December 19, 1950 a UC Riverside citrus station scientist warns the common house fly has become resistant to many insecticides. He notes DDT worked briefly but flies developed resistance, prompting renewed control efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University of California
Citrus Experiment Station
Riverside
Ralph D. March
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Saturday Review of Literature
By Rochelle Gibson
Louise Fatio
Alladin Books
Tasha Tudor
Oxford
Santa Claus
Marguerite Walters
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard
Kathryn Jackson
Simon & Schuster
Anne Molloy
Lucy
Gladys Hasty Carroll
Johnny
Hendrik Willem van Loon
Grace Castagnetta
Franz Wasner
Will
California Desert
North Korea
Manchurian
Murphey Realty & Mortgage Co
Ry Baerniture
Tome Leon Rea
Imperial Coffee
Durham
Sherman
Bertram
San Fernando
Yosemite Gray Sale
Bigelow
W. R. Shearman Furniture CO
Sixth Ave
Stern
TOYS
Lionel
Mar
East Speedway
Tucson Fertilizer CO
Dial
M. A
Turson
Christensen
Qld
Hizgerald
Old Fitzgerald
Stitzel-Weller Distillery
Louisville
Kentucky
Chirothe
Wilkinson Chiropractic Office
Wayne Wilkinson Palmer Chiropractor
Pontiac
Hackett & Whiting Motor CO
E. Alameda
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