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...amiable bear of a man on the ground, Alabama's leviathan-like (6 ft. 8 in., 265 Ibs.) Governor James ("Kissin' Jim") Folsom while airborne seemed more like a barefoot boy with cheek. When he goes sailing off into the wild blue in his Cessna 180, Big Jim disclosed, he travels with feet au naturel. Reason: in his size 16 shoes, he cannot use the rudder pedals without stomping on the brakes as well. More interesting was another Deep South tidbit: although unlicensed, Student Pilot Folsom has been soloing on the sly-a violation of CAA rules...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 21, 1958 | 7/21/1958 | See Source »

...request that the CRIMSON publish this letter in correction of misstatements and distortions of fact in your editorial entitled "Leviathan," published...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REBUTTAL | 5/9/1958 | See Source »

...those who object to the small car, my husband is 6 ft. tall, weighs 175 Ibs. and has plenty of room; our two children prefer it to their grandfather's cars (Buick and a Cadillac). A large number of Americans don't want an overinflated Detroit Leviathan-just economical transportation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 28, 1958 | 4/28/1958 | See Source »

...Whales & Glands "[He is] gifted with such wondrous power and velocity in swimming as to defy all present pursuit from man," wrote Herman Melville of the finback whale. "This leviathan seems the banished and unconquerable Cain of his race." Captain Ahab and his men felt the same way, concentrated on other, slower beasts (notably the sperm whale, a species to which Moby Dick himself belonged). But today, with steam power and steel cables, the "unconquerable Cains" of the ocean, the fin and the blue whales,* are hunted vigorously-and among the most interested hunters is modern medicine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Of Whales & Glands | 1/21/1957 | See Source »

...twilit night last week when eight bells sounded midnight aboard the British factory whaling ship Southern Venturer, breasting the sullen swells of the Antarctic Ocean, it meant "They're off!" The 1957 whaling season was officially open. All hands were ready for the first leviathan. Soon from over the leaden horizon came one of the mother ship's brood of smaller ships, towing a monstrous fin whale by its tail. Then began a mechanized dissection such as Melville did not imagine even in his most tortured dreams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Of Whales & Glands | 1/21/1957 | See Source »

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