Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...poison oak, doctors wanted a preventive to be taken by mouth, because injected extracts sometimes caused worse irritation than they were supposed to prevent. New York University's Biochemist Margaret B. Strauss developed the tablets, Dr. Robert J. Langs tested them on Coast Guardsmen clearing brush along lower Mississippi waterways. Result: up to 95% effective for at least six months. Trade-named Aqua Ivy, the tablets are nonprescription. Still under investigation: use of Aqua Ivy injections for victims who already have severe ivy poisoning. Doctors report some dramatic improvements within hours...
Viewers who saw last week's production of Town could see little similarity between its story and the celebrated murder of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old Chicago Negro beaten and shot to death in Mississippi after he unwarily whistled at a white storekeeper's wife (TIME, Oct. 3 and Nov. 21, 1955). Yet Town began, through CBS's courageous suggestion to Serling, as a thinly veiled dramatization of the Till case. A précis of Serling's first effort was rejected by all but one of the sponsors; they would not lend their brand...
...best-known Southern newspapers are shaped in the image of their editors-the Arkansas Gazette of Harry Ashmore, the Atlanta Constitution of Ralph McGill, the Greenville Delta Democrat-Times of Mississippi's Hodding Carter. But to many Southern intellectuals, the finest paper in the region is built not around a man, but on a moderate, conscientious approach to racial integration and the self-declared aim "to give the news impartially, without fear or favor." The paper: the Chattanooga Daily Times...
From the moment he arrived in London for his six-week rock-'n'-roll tour of Britain, Tennessee's flaxen-haired Jerry Lee Lewis, 22, made himself at home in the headlines. The tiny, pony-tailed Mississippi schoolgirl he had brought with him, he proudly announced, was none other than his third wife, Myra. Her age: 15. When reporters gaped, Lewis, resplendent in blue velvet trousers, casually drawled: "I can assure you that my wife is all woman, even though she looks kinda young...
...more exciting to them is a planned visit to the home of one of their favorite Americans, Mark Twain, in Hannibal, Mo. So taken was Goriaev by Huckleberry Finn's adventures on the Mississippi that he ran away from home at the age of eleven and briefly floated down the Dnieper on a raft. Goriaev, who has drawn the Statue of Liberty wearing policeman's boots and carrying a club marked Racism and Segregation, illustrated Russian editions of both Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer...