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Married. Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives, 36, large (270 Ibs.) as life and twice as natural folksinger (Blue-Tail Fly, Foggy, Foggy Dew); and Helen Ehrlich, 29, his onetime radio scripter; he for the first time, she for the second; in Chicago...
Said Professor Henry deW. Smyth, who had written the War Department's principal report on the bomb: "If men, working together, can solve the mysteries of the universe, they can also solve the problem of human relations on this planet. Not only in science, but now in all human relations, we must work together with free minds...
...knew a century ago that burning wood in their hothouses made the pineapples ripen quicker. (It was the ethylene gas in the wood smoke.) Following the principle, Hawaiian pineapple-growers have long been dropping pellets of calcium carbide into the hearts of their yucca-like pineapple plants. Moistened by dew, the pellets give off acetylene (similar to ethylene) which makes the plants bear earlier...
Ives managed to talk 20th Century-Fox out of tampering with The Blue-Tail Fly, though he did have to bowdlerize his other favorite, Foggy, Foggy Dew, an old Irish ballad. The Hays Office objected to these lines...
Just to keep her from the foggy, foggy dew...