Word: gold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME'S sports jinx myth was dying, TIME'S youngest sister publication, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, reached its lively first birthday. In its anniversary issue this week, SI assays the gold in what it calls the new golden age of sports, and reports on some of its own accomplishments. SI has made some notable contributions to sports coverage in its first year: a wide use of color photography; detailed Previews of major events; the new Conversation Piece, a revealing report on sports greats in their own words, e.g., Pitcher Preacher Roe's admission that he threw illegal spit balls...
Here Bulganin, dressed in a pale grey summer suit, drew back slightly from the carved oak podium. In the box behind him, where sit the top committeemen from whom others take their cue, someone laughed. Others joined, and a gale of laughter swept through the white and gold chamber...
...spiro, spero-while I breathe, I hope-is young John Henry Johnson's motto. What he hopes for, he tells his astonished Congressman Jack Fairweather, is some of the gold in Fort Knox. Impossible, cluck-clucks Fairweather. and just what would he do with it if he got it. The answer convinces the congressman that he has been catering to the screwball vote: "I've developed a process for changing gold into dirt...
Gangling John Henry is a goodhearted scientist who has discovered a mildly radioactive substance called Taurum while experimenting with gold at an atomic pile. Taurum turns into a crop multiplying wonder drug when applied to the soil. And John Henry, in search of more gold to convert, is soon in a head-whirling spin on the Washington merry-go-around. Author Alfred (Raising a Riot) Toombs's hot-weather farce hilariously ribs and roams the nation's capital, from cocktail binges to congressional investigations. The underlying moral, if there is one, is that the national sense of humor...
...John Henry as "a terrible shot to th' boy's nerves cistern." Among them, this unlikely crew make Taurum Topic A all over the globe. The Moslem Brotherhood warns that "Israeli plotters [are] at the bottom of the whole thing," the Russians claim they invented the precious gold dust 30 years ago, and a Quai d'Orsay spokesman begs the Americans to "consider the effect of their decision upon the soul of France...