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Mixed Drink. In Springfield, Ohio, hospital attendants reported Willie Mar tin's condition as "good" after he had been treated for absorption of a home made punch made of iodine, turpentine, kerosene, rat poison, lighter fluid, shoe polish, and wine...
Slice of Life. In Burganj, India, death came to Haji Ghulam Mohammed, 127, married ten times (one wife tried to poison him), a father 32 times (oldest living child 85; youngest...
Advising against pinning hopes on such "terrible weapons as the atomic bomb," President Conant went on to point out that fear of retaliation would not prevent nations from attacking with the bomb. "Poison gas," he said, "was held in check during World War II, not because it was outlawed, but because it was ineffective." The Atomic Bomb, he remarked, is effective...
...Universal) would be a satisfactory scoop of vanilla if it didn't try to be hot-fudge-marshmallow-pecan. The film was originally titled Once Upon a Dream, but Universal's sales department made a firm pronouncement: "Any title with fantasy or the supernatural suggested is poison at the box office." But Once Upon a Dream is still the right name for the picture...
...York Daily News's poison penman, John Parsons O'Donnell, was caught in an untruth, and had to eat his words. In his Capitol Stuff column, which goes to the News's 2,000,000 readers, a good part of them Jewish, O'Donnell had put forth his own version of why General George S. Patton Jr. had fallen from power and glory. Hinted O'Donnell darkly: a Jewish plot...