Word: horned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mighty proud of Barbara Ellice Richardson, his brand-new, baby-doll bride, "a pretty girl with peculiar eyes, one brown and the other blue." the Rev. Alvin Horn, Grand Dragon of the Alabama Ku Klux Klan. trotted her down to Tuscaloosa to show off at a race-baiting get-together the boys had planned. But back in Talladega. Barbara Ellice's daddy sicked the sheriff on the honeymooners, and Barbara Ellice got clamped into custody. The reason: bouncing (5 ft. 8 in., 145 Ib.) Baby Doll is only 15. It was all news to the Reverend, a 45-year...
...Society researchers last week reported their final figures on the connection between smoking habits and premature death-especially from cancer and heart disease. With a total of 11,870 deaths among the men (ages 50 to 70 when the study began in 1952), Drs. E. Cuyler Hammond and Daniel Horn were able to go far beyond the findings they had earlier reported (TIME, July 5, 1954 et seq.). From a mountain of crosschecked statistics submitted to the A.M.A. last week, they concluded: 1) all smoking shortens life; 2) cigarette smoking is by far the worst offender, and the risk goes...
Other Cancers. For the first time Drs. Hammond and Horn found a significant tie between cigarette smoking and cancer in other sites: the pancreas, where the death rate goes up 50%; the kidneys, up 58%; the stomach, up 61%; the prostate, UP 75%; the bladder, up 117%; liver and gall bladder, up 352%. Cancer at some such sites might have been caused either by direct action of substances in cigarette tar, or by spread from an undetected tumor in the lung. No relationship was found between smoking and leukemia, or cancer of the brain, colon or rectum...
...England from the Queen Mary, announced that he had never before rubbed shoulders with so many unsociable snobs as his fellow first-class passengers. "My wife and I were not spoken to during the voyage by any other passenger," said he. "I got so desperate that I tried to horn in on a bridge game, but was repulsed. The players were all Americans too! If they had known who I was, they would have fallen all over themselves to be friends." The most friendly folks he met aboard the Mary: "The stewards and the waiters...
Across the pampas, tractors towed combines out of the fields. Twenty million liters of wine mellowed in gigantic oak casks in western Mendoza. Off toward Cape Horn, coats thickened on 19 million sheep. In the subtropical north, the machetes of the cane cutters flashed...