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...statement that "it may be years before the food products of Bikini are safe" [TIME, Oct. 3], dozens of us have partaken daily of Bikini's coconuts and papaya, with full clearance from both radiochemist and radio-medical officer. For six weeks we swam daily in the "poisoned lagoon" and walked hip-deep by the hour in the "radioactive water." Poppycock ! Over two years ago the scientists reported that a man living for months on twice-A-bombed Bikini would be exposed to radioactivity roughly equivalent to one chest...
...Russians wished to keep their bomb from sending up telltale dust, they could have exploded it deep in some Siberian lake. The second Bikini test bomb (Test Baker), which exploded underwater, did not raise much of a cloud. Most of its dust was carried back into the lagoon by a deluge of radioactive water...
...Blue Lagoon (J. Arthur Rank; Universal-International) is a British import which might better have been dropped in the South Pacific, where much of it was filmed. Purporting to be a South Sea-romance, it is actually about as long-winded and emotionally fogbound as a Norse saga...
Beginning with the rusty old excuse of a fire at sea, Lagoon beaches two little British tykes, aged seven and eight, on a deserted, gorgeously Technicolored island. Twelve years later, the girl (Jean Simmons) and boy (Donald Houston) are still trying to thumb a ride back to civilization. Meanwhile they have put together an attractive, cabana-type dwelling in a palm tree, a charming dinner set out of coconut shells and assorted Polynesian oddments, and some fetching tree-bark sarongs for Jean. Unfortunately for the audience, the young couple has long since run out of anything interesting to talk about...
...apocryphal story. According to another version, Capone's highjinks disturbed the sleep of J. C. Penney's house guest Herbert Hoover who, in turn, put Capone in jail. The solid facts are: 1) Penney's estate was on an island nearly a mile across the lagoon from Capone's; 2) Hoover was a house guest at the Penney estate in January 1929; 3) Miami police arrested Capone at least three times in April and May 1930 on charges of "being a public nuisance and source of annoyance to the community"; 4) Capone was finally indicted...