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...Georgia's Toombs County, deep in the dark land of white supremacy, Robert Mallard was known to many white folks as a "biggety nigger." At 37, he was a traveling salesman, strong, brash and prosperous. His voluminous sales of caskets, embalming fluid, and clothing irked his white competitors. He owned a 36-acre farm, drove a flashy 1948 Frazer sedan. He made frequent trips North and was fond of calling himself "Mister Robert Mallard...
...drug looked like a good bet for alcoholics. Other anti-worm medicines (e.g., the common cleaning fluid carbon tetrachloride) are sometimes fatally poisonous when mixed with alcohol. During the past year, two of Dr. Jacobsen's associates have treated 500 alcoholics with the drug; they called it "antabus" (from anti-abuse). By last week 450 of the patients still had a loathing for alcohol after only one dose of antabus...
...Surface. Penman Milton Reynolds came up from the murky underwater world of ball-point pens with an eyecatching new gadget. It was a transparent plastic cigarette lighter with an oversize load of fluid-enough, he said, for 8,304 lights v. 842 for an ordinary lighter. Reynolds said that he has advance orders for 250,000 (including 50,000 for Gimbels), and that subcontractors, already producing 18,000 a day, would soon step up production to 70,000. The price, with the plastic stand and case: $5. So that customers will not associate the lighter with his much-panned...
...high). The rider was completely relaxed. The French got off to a humiliating start-their first horse refused to take the first jump-and looked tense and hesitant in the saddle. The Canadians made no bones about the fact that they were trying to copy the fluid riding style of the Mexicans. By week's end, the Mexicans had won eight of ten military events...
...halfback line, which Munro calls the most important position in his system, the starters vary. Don Louria, playing his fourth year, is well established at center-halfback and is the man who runs the defense and sets up the attack. But at the winghalfs the situation is fluid. Gus Seamons, Harvey Mudd, Disk Miller, Bob Carswell, and Dick Saul all see action...