A certain type of scientist, watching a baseball game, would writhe in his seat to see a fielder drop a fly. "How inefficient!" this scientist would groan. "Why doesn't the supervisor of this nine-man-reciprocating machine equip his units with some substance which would increase adhesion on the inner surfaces of their so-called gloves? Tentatively, and subject to experiment, I should say that a satisfactory substance for this purpose might be found in common or furniture glue."
Golf devotees who read the Scientific American were dismayed last week to find Daniel McFarlan Moore, a New...
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