Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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High on a New Jersey hilltop, overlooking colonial steeples and the Delaware River, music fills the clear air six nights a week. It rises from a huge, floodlit, green and yellow tent, home of Lambertville's Music Circus. Under the big top (where there is room for 1,500) the attractions are Broadway shows (with good second-string casts) such as Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Call Me Madam, and such vintage operettas as Sweethearts, New Moon and Die Fledermaus. Last week, the Music Circus put on view a frothy revival of Orpheus in the Underworld, by Jacques Offenbach...
...test doctors' appetites for free samples, George A. Kellogg, a New Jersey pharmaceutical researcher, sent out 1,000 postcards announcing new "cures" for four obviously phony diseases, "gastraposis," "Hemingway's Syndrome," "Hyglochycococephelicia" and "Gallardia." No fewer than 80 cards were returned with requests for samples...
Beefy, jovial Howard Simpson, 57, is one of the nation's few top railroaders to rise through the passenger department. He started as a clerk with the Central Railroad of New Jersey and hit almost every rung of the ladder on the way up to assistant general passenger agent. He joined B. & O. in 1931 and started grooming for the presidency a year ago. Said Simpson: "I plan no changes just for the sake of change...
...Martian atmosphere also seems to lack oxygen. This fact alone, says the careful physiologist, rules out all higher forms of life-as earthlings understand life. Warm-blooded "little men from Mars," therefore, will probably never try to invade New Jersey. But Martian plant life (e.g., mosses and lichens that can manufacture their own oxygen) is entirely possible. From this distance, there is not" much more to be learned about the far-off planet that looks pale red to the naked eye. If rocket riders ever get to Mars, says Dr. Strughold, the first explorer to return will be able...
...Papen has been widely suspected of organizing the 1916 munitions explosion at the Black Tom pier in Jersey City, N.J. and the 1917 explosion that wrecked the Canadian Car & Foundry plant at Kingsland, N.J. In 1939, a Mixed Claims Commission found Germany guilty of both blasts, but Von Papen still denies responsibility...