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...slums, 360-lb. Bootlegger John R. ("Fat") Hardy whipped up a substitute. Police said that he bought a 54-gallon drum of poisonous methyl alcohol, often used for hot-rod fuel, and mixed it with well water, peach flavoring, regular moonshine and a "beading oil" calculated to make it foam when shaken. Seventyseven gallons were delivered. Within hours Atlanta's Grady Negro Clinic began to fill with men & women who panted, frothed at the mouth and writhed in horrible convulsions. Three hundred and fifty people (among them a ten-year-old boy) were hospitalized. Dozens were partially blinded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana | 11/5/1951 | See Source »

...Greek climbed the white Sierra, and he grew well known for his strenuous hobby. Soon both the weather bureau and the local power company were asking him to measure the snow that he found on the glittering peaks. The power people wanted to know how much snow water would foam in spring into the rivers and through their turbines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Grandfather of the Snow | 11/5/1951 | See Source »

...assigned to play the goddess of love in One Touch of Venus, Sculptor Joseph Nicolosi was commissioned to do a statue of her. She began posing for him in a two-piece bathing suit, but he found that this interfered with his artist's conception of the foam-born one, so Ava obligingly removed the bathing-suit top. This, said Nicolosi, after working for a while, was better, but still not satisfactory. So Ava rolled the bottom of the suit down to G-string size, and Nicolosi turned out a magnificent, realistic statue. When a studio bigwig...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Farmer's Daughter | 9/3/1951 | See Source »

...Norway. Off the northern tip of Denmark, a fierce storm blew up; Long Henry began to wallow like a waterlogged dinosaur. For an instant his long steel neck shot high above the waves, as if to get a last look at the shore; then, in a whirlpool of foam, he capsized and plunged to the bottom, taking with him one French sailor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: Asleep in the Deep | 8/13/1951 | See Source »

...Thing rocketed straight out from the brink of the falls, dropped into foam, bounced into view once or twice, then vanished in the mist. A few minutes later it bobbed free of the boiling water, just as Hill had predicted, but it had been broken to a tangled, shapeless mass. Hill was gone. His mangled body was recovered 16 hours later near the pier of the famed Maid of the Mist sightseeing boat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: I'm Their Boy | 8/13/1951 | See Source »

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