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...test the effects of radiation, the nose cone carried tubes containing living onion tissue, yeast cells, corn and mustard seeds, fruit flies, human blood (the donor: Captain William Augerson of the surgeon general's office), and the eggs and sperm of sea urchins. Some of the eggs and sperm were arranged to be mixed during the flight, causing the first conception of earthly life in space for the later study of earth-bound scientists...
Imitation of Life (Universal-International), after a quarter century in Hollywood's root cellar (the first film version of this Fannie Hurst bestseller was released in 1934), is still a potent onion. When passed before the moviegoer's eyes, it may force theater owners to install aisle scuppers to drain off the tears...
...wail of jazz drifts smokily through San Francisco bistros, the lean man with the horn-rimmed glasses and a grey-flecked crew-cut walks up to the bar and acts like the squarest square from Endsville. He orders milk. But from the Red Garter to the Purple Onion, not an eyebrow lifts. Everyone knows that on matters that count-a beat and a lyric-Columnist Ralph Gleason. 42, has a taste so cool that he turns out much of the solid reporting and comment on the convoluted world of jazz...
Variety for its own sake reaches into every corner of U.S. life. Even when ordering a martini-once a simple concoction of gin and vermouth cum olive -today's drinker must specify whether he wants it dry, extra dry or desiccated ; with lemon peel, olive or onion; straight or on the rocks; with domestic or foreign gin (high or low proof) or vodka, etc. Ford, which started with a single model car, now offers millions of combinations of color, interior fabric, power, styling and accessories in its autos, could theoretically run at full production for a year and never...
...With Onion. In Washington, D.C., Eddie Martini applied to the United States district court for permission to change his name to Edward Gibson...