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...annual plague of grasshoppers was beginning early last week in Mississippi, where the hoppers were crunching through corn and cotton fields, eating everything in sight except the evilest-tasting weeds. Farmers were fighting them in an approved modern manner: with bait of wheat bran flavored with white arsenic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Grasshopper Time | 7/12/1948 | See Source »

Born. To Russel McKinley ("Buck") Grouse, 55, pun -loving half of the writing-producing Lindsay & Grouse team (Life with Father, Arsenic and Old Lace, State of the Union), and second wife Anna Erskine Grouse, 32, daughter of Author John Erskine: their second child, first daughter; in Manhattan. Name: Lindsay Ann Grouse. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 24, 1948 | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

...dimercaptopropanol, or British Anti-Lewisite), used in arsenic poisoning, may cause vomiting, constrict the throat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Take It Easy | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

Sample smash: an arsenic atom (atomic weight: 75) had 21 particles knocked off by a single blow, and was reduced to radioactive cobalt (atomic weight: 54). When the new cyclotron bombarded an oxygen atom (atomic weight: 16) with neutrons, the light atom split into five pieces (see cut; the arrows point to the five-way split of the oxygen atom, the streaks indicate the path of atomic chips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Smithereens | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

Born. To Russel McKinley Grouse, 53, waggish perennial partner of Howard Lindsay in playwriting and producing (Life with Father, Arsenic and Old Lace, State of the Union), and Anna Erskine Crouse, 30, daughter of Novelist John Erskine: their first child, a son; in Manhattan. Name: Timothy. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 20, 1947 | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

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