Word: mop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This Christmas, to honor a batch of native mountain lads, one of Barwick's assistants will show up in Santa Claus costume, wearing a white mop for a beard, and frail Laura Barwick, mother of four Stateside children, will roast a wild boar and some venison, bake a few pies. There will be tango music blasting across the red dirt street from Banmethuot's Chinese cinema, and John will pass around iced Algerian wine. Instead of the traditional Christmas tree, cotton balls on bamboo shoots will have to do. After the party the young American assistants will leave...
Amid the jollity of a Dallas wingding, wise old Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, 76, plunked down at a handy piano with the boyish, mop-topped guest of honor, added an uneasy basso ostinato to the sure-handed treble provided by Van Cliburn. Texas-bred Van, drawled Sam, is "a glowing symbol of the 98½% of American boys who are good...
Gypsy Rhythm. The bestselling version of the song (Decca's) was recorded by Composer Domenico Modugno himself. Last week, as if to make the success official, the swarthy, mop-headed Sicilian followed his voice to the U.S. And as soon as he alighted at New York's Idlewild Airport, exuberantly sliding down the banister of the landing steps, Domenico treated his welcoming committee to a rendering...
Sunburn. Easily the most burning question concerns suntan pills derived from an ancient Egyptian herb remedy. A few years ago, U.S. researchers extracted the weed's potent chemical, 8-methoxy-psoralen, or 8-MOP for short, thought it might help thin-skinned sun seekers tan without burning (TIME, Oct. 17, 1955). Then the team split. One member, the University of Oregon's Dr. Thomas B. Fitzpatrick, concluded that 8-MOP actually makes burns more likely. A small drug firm, Paul B. Elder Co. of Bryan, Ohio, put up 8-MOP in capsules as Oxsor-alen, got it passed...
Though Upjohn claimed to have made it safer, the firm warned that 8-MOP is dangerous unless taken in strict accordance with doctors' orders: only two tablets a day, at least two hours before exposure to the sun, then tan very gradually-otherwise, a worse burn than without the drug. And it is emphatically not for children. So far, Upjohn has had no reports of severe mishaps, but nearly all dermatologists are still set against use of 8-MOP as a tanning aid, warn that it can cause stomach upsets and even liver damage...