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Married. Veronica Lake (real name: Constance Keane), 35, cinemactress (I Married a Witch); and Joseph McCarthy, 40; she for the third time, he for the second; in Traverse City, Mich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 12, 1955 | 9/12/1955 | See Source »

Fairweather's Friends. The anti-Tau-rum faction mobilizes under its natural leader, Washington's leading witch-hunter, Senator Jason Ransom. When an over-Taurumed African violet is left by accident in Ransom's car. and turns into a "huge writhing mass," the Senator, envisaging a "Red assassin," empties his revolver into the back-seat brush. Soon he is alerting his colleagues, "I can hardly believe the unbelievable extent of this conspiracy," and grabbing scare headlines, e.g., "RANSOM SAYS REDS PLAN ATTACK ON U.S. CURRENCY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pay Dirt | 8/8/1955 | See Source »

...moron." When poolside sex and liquor kill mother. Jacy quits Hollywood and flies to England to scratch around for his "roots." He not only digs up the Florister clan, a prolific, Barrymoreish brood whose blood lines rival the "begats," but also the girl of his dreams, a brunette witch of a first cousin named Olive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Old-Fashioned Abandon | 6/27/1955 | See Source »

...Paterson, N.J., found lying in her bedroom closet after four days' search, Housemaid Dorothy Cureton, 27, explained to her startled employers that she was merely recovering from the effects of drinking a fifth and several pints of whisky plus two pints of rubbing alcohol, one pint of witch hazel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, may 9, 1955 | 5/9/1955 | See Source »

...Decker believes that photosynthesis stops when the light fails, but that the daytime respiration that accompanies photosynthesis does not stop quite so suddenly. "It is like catching the leaf," he says, "with its pants down before it can adjust to darkness." Dr. Decker's method with Rabino-witch's nightmare may have considerable implications. A plant's production of food is the net result of its photosynthesis minus its respiration. Dr. Decker hopes to breed hybrid plants that breathe only slightly in sunlight, permitting photosynthesis to manufacture more food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Rabinowitch's Nightmare | 4/25/1955 | See Source »

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