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...Jason, a relative of Phryxus, decided to get the fleece back. He outfitted a ship, the Argo, and manned it with big-muscled demigods, including Hercules. After some thrilling adventures with shipwrecks, sorcery, brazen bulls and aggressively amorous women, the Argonauts snatched the fleece and brought it home to Thessaly...
...mining technique. The early Greeks lined their gold-washing sluices with sheepskins. The gold dust stuck to the natural grease in the wool. The same principle (the selective attraction of oily substances for certain mineral particles) is widely used today in the flotation process of concentrating metallic ores. Jason, then, according to Dr. Taggart, was perhaps no better than a sneak thief loitering around a primitive refinery...
...Class of 1944: William Murray Ennis Jr., Edward Spence Fitzgibbons, John Christopher Friedmann, Joseph Everett Garland, Frederick Joseph Hillman, Walter Kennedy, Harold Kresberg, Jules Calvin Ladenheim, Jason Marks, Thomas Newell Metcalf Jr., Gerald David Rosenbloom, Philip Hunt Russell Jr., Robert Stewart Smith, George Richard Warfield Jr., Herbert Joslin Wilson...
...reference to the letter, "Admirals by the Nose?" by Yeoman Henry Jason, truer words were never spoken. Just one mistake -this also applies to Stateside WACs, WAVES and Red Cross girls...
Sirs: ... As a former Red Cross Recreation Worker, overseas in the Southwest Pacific Area for 18 months, I say we were strictly "G.I." Regarding our love affairs, does Mr. Jason know that 75% of the R.C. girls in the SWPA married enlisted...