Word: southern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This was the same old adulterant that, added by U.S. bootleggers to their "Jamaica Jake" (a drink made with tincture of ginger), caused something like 20,000 paralysis cases in Prohibition days in Ohio, Kansas and other Midwest and Southern states. About the only good thing to say for the stuff is that it is almost never fatal...
Tanksgiving Day. Near Pryor, Okla., after discovering that somebody was stealing gasoline from drums on his farm, crafty Elmer Southern filled them with water, was rewarded a few days later by seeing three boys pushing their car on a nearby road, called the sheriff to come and nab the crooks...
...Southern California (8-1)-lost its first game as a pass-interference play set up the winning touchdown for its otherwise lackluster crosstown rival, U.C.L.A...
...Southern California (8-0)-beat Baylor, 17-8, as its massive line, anchored by End Marlin and Guard Mike McKeever (TIME, Oct. 26), gave up only three yards on the ground...
Start to Think. Sitting pretty in southern Maine, Colby has attracted money because Bixler has given the campus intellectual tone. Along with boosting the curriculum, notably in philosophy and religion, he launched art and music departments. He fostered a "creative thinking" course, spurring students to take off on any subject from cider to Columbus. He stirred the school to start a scholarly magazine, to ponder a "book of the year," e.g., The Lonely Crowd; Science, Magic and Religion. He got Colby to give TV courses for credit to rural viewers, made the school a summer center for adult education...