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...less fortunate than McInnes: despondent small farmers who watched entire livelihoods go up in smoke with the remains of their condemned animals. "It's a killer," sighs McInnes. The National Farmers' Union estimates the crisis costs farmers $30 million a week. "We're just waiting and praying," says Ian Johnson, an N.F.U. official in Devon. "This is our worst nightmare...
...sheep and cattle at a farm near Burnside soon became infected from the airborne virus; some of the sheep were then sent to the nearby Hexham Market, where they mixed with other livestock and immediately passed the virus on. "Pigs spread it, sheep carry it, cattle show it," says Johnson. William Cleave, a large cattle dealer from Devon, unwittingly purchased a flock of diseased sheep at the market and took the animals to another market in Cumbria, before sending them to a farm in Highampton, 700 km away...
...latest Vincent Price film, Japanese monster flicks, any flavor of Dracula or Frankenstein. There were stories on makeup, on directors, on actors, on special effects techniques. There was the "Fangmail" and the monthly "Horrorscope." The back of the book sold items like magic kits, X-ray glasses and Tor Johnson masks (the wrestler turned actor courtesy of Ed Wood and "Plan 9 From Outer Space"). It was fabulous. I was an instant...
...Harlem's famous cabarets and hosting legendary parties where struggling black artists could establish contacts with New York's influential whites. Van Vechten is credited with directly assisting in the publication of many works by black authors, including Nella Larsen's Quicksand and Passing, the reissuing of James Weldon Johnson's Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man and many of Hughes's works (he indeed is solely responsible for launching Hughes's major publishing career). As the letters between him and Hughes attest, Van Vechten seemed genuinely enamored with the black culture thriving Uptown. Nevertheless, this same man outraged many...
...senior class, there was great uncertainty as to whether Johnson, Kowal, and Larkworthy would return from injuries, which is why the Crimson carried 16 players on its roster this year...