Word: albino
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whale in question was no Moby Dick (a monstrous albino sperm whale) but a finback measuring 44 ft. 2 in. and weighing an estimated 50 tons. It was no Moby Dick by temperament either: far from eluding pursuit, it seemed to seek out Dr. White. No fewer than five times it ran itself aground at Provincetown, virtually on Dr. White's Boston doorstep (though he was in Washington). Four times the U.S. Coast Guard hitched a 3-in. hawser to it and towed it out to sea, only to have it snap the line and return with a derisive...
...Screen. An individual's risk of harmful consequences, ranging from sunburn to cancer, is in inverse ratio to the density of the screen built into his own skin-the amount of pigment in the epidermis. This is most clearly shown, said Dr. Knox, in the contrast between the albino Negro, who has no tolerance whatever for the sun's tanning and burning rays, and the normal Negro, who has a high degree of tolerance, increasing with the darkness of his skin...
...addiction to a certain adjective which goes as profanity in Britain, i.e., "bloody." The lines more or less tell the story of Rogue Yates, a relentlessly robust novel in a little-known genre-the Australian western. Author Ronan's sunburnt bloody stockman is a dwarfish near-albino of repulsive appearance and character, named Tony Yates. His father, an ex-convict, used to beat his gin-sodden mother with his wooden leg; a sister was active in a sort of open-air bordello, and Tony himself was sold to a cattle thief at twelve. At this stage the reader...
...laundry, and he sings like a baritone bulbul. Ann Blyth (see MILESTONES) is the girl and Vic Damone the boy. The music is borrowed din from Borodin, and except for Stranger in Paradise, it sounds like routine Tin Pan Allah. The incidental decorations are eye-filling, though-particularly an albino peacock that holds his end up with more style than most of the chorus girls show...
...first of the issue's journeys into the juvenile is Nathaniel La Mar's story of Lonny, an albino boy. Writing in the first person, the author poignantly follows the boy's state of mind from pathetic loneliness to sadistic happiness. Mr. La Mar connects the incidents of the story smoothly and his expression underscores the precocious nature and introspective personality of the boy with marked finesse...