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...Crow whisky, Stuart Little, 54, had an aspiration essential in his calling. He wanted to get his product's name past the sharp, hostile eyes of newspaper editors and into print for some free publicity. For deft Stuart Little,#&134; who also wanted some information for a promotion booklet, the problem was simple. Out of Editor & Publisher he picked the names of 250 dailies, sent them all the same letter: "There are upwards of 3 billion crows in North America . . . But I think there must be octogenarian crows that live far beyond the twelve-year span allotted them...
...under Benjamin Harrison and uncle Robert Lansing was to become Secretary of State under Wilson. At the age of eight, Allen, already deep in the problems of international relations, turned out a 31-page history of the Boer War, roundly criticizing the British. Fond relatives arranged to have the booklet published, and despite wrong grammar and juvenile misspellings, it sold 4,000 copies and earned some $1,500, which was turned over to a Boer relief fund. (This youthful literary effort served Dulles well in 1920 when he asked Columbia Professor Henry Alfred Todd for permission to marry his daughter...
...booklet describes FCDA's sketchy tests held last spring at Yucca Flat, Nevada (TIME, March 30). Two "typical" frame houses, densely populated with department-store dummies, were exposed to the heat, radiation and blast of an AEC "nuclear diagnostic device" on a 300-ft. tower. In their basements and dug into nearby desert were various shelters, also inhabited by dummies...
...crushed the nearer house (3,500 ft. away) into kindling wood. The farther house (at 7,500 ft.) was badly damaged, but left standing. In both houses, the dummies huddled under wooden basement shelters were still in good dummy condition. The FCDA's conclusion, urged strongly in its booklet: wooden basement shelters will give enough protection to justify their modest cost...
This point is not made clear in the FCDA booklet. In other ways, the test was not realistic. The houses were painted white to reduce the effect of the explosion's heat. They had no electric wiring, gas pipes, oil burners or other equipment that might make them catch fire. Except for outside chimneys, the houses contained no masonry, which might have crashed into the basement, crushing the wooden shelters...