Word: golds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Victoriana. Of similar affections are rats, for whom Jack has no affection. Indeed, he has a mania, one might say. Where Jack's mania takes him is hard to tell. When at last an exterminator succeeds in catching a few rats, the rats start killing themselves off by eating gold leaf, becoming $100 rats...
...curtain falls with Jack, whose avarice is never really very convincing, staring wistfully at the bodies of $100 rats. If he has learned anything much, it is that one good way to kill rats is to feed them gold leaf. (Incidentally, there's lots of gold leaf available in Adams House, if any local, aspiring $100 rats are interested...
...tundra last week, a top pop was Alaska, the Forty-Ninth Star, sung by Anchorage Entertainer-Bartender Freddie Beardon on the new Igloo label (made in Anchorage). And it came close to capturing the confidence and cockiness of Alaskans (We have riches untold-there's oil, fish and gold), hustling toward the greatest summer ever. Some northern high lights...
...bright U.S. high school graduates these days, scholarships pop up like gold nuggets in a lucky miner's pan. Last week from its headquarters in Evanston, Ill., the National Merit Scholarship Corp. announced the names of 850 winners-a record crop in the biggest, fastest growing privately supported scholarship program in U.S. history...
Died. Lonnie Alfonso Coffin, M.D., 68, who practiced for 44 years in Farmington, Iowa, received a gold medal last autumn as the American Medical Association's General Practitioner of the Year (TIME, Dec. 15); of a heart attack; in Keokuk...