Word: parrish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...catch him in the annual Sadie Hawkins Day Race? Will Li'l Abner ackchelly have to (sob!) marry up wif "a female of THUH OPPOSITE SEX," thereby yielding her a half interest in Yokumberry Tonic? And if he does, what will happen to po' Daisy Mae (Leslie Parrish...
...space vehicles has spawned a whole galaxy of new magazines. Last week a team of space journalists announced that they will try to establish still another publishing constellation. Erik Bergaust, 33, editor of Missiles and Rockets (paid circ. 23,091), and four of his top associates are leaving Wayne Parrish's American Aviation Publications to form their own publishing house...
...Since Parrish started Missiles and Rockets in 1956 industry sales have risen from $1.2 billion a year to an estimated $7 billion. Operating on the Wayne Parrish rule that each $1 billion industry segment deserves its own publication. Bergaust decided that "the business is big enough for us all." This week he will offer a five-day-a-week industry newsletter called Space Business Daily (cost: $125 a year). Later he expects to launch other publications in the field of space-age ground support, electronics and propulsion...
...bent for missiles since the age of twelve when he blew up his parents' apartment in an Oslo suburb with black powder rocket propellant. After serving in the Norwegian underground during World War II. Bergaust in 1946 became aviation editor of an Oslo newspaper. He joined Parrish's publications in 1956, quickly won a reputation for pro-Army bias and for exclusives on advanced military developments. To Publisher Parrish, Bergaust's resignation was no surprise. Said Parrish: "Mr. Bergaust went into orbit about the time of Sputnik I and has only occasionally approached the earth since then...
Honeybees, for all their storied sweetness, are second to rattlesnakes as a menace to life in the U.S., the University of Pittsburgh's Dr. Henry M. Parrish reported last week. He traced 55 deaths in five years to rattlesnake bites, and 52 to allergic or anaphylactic (shock) reactions in sensitized subjects stung by bees. Hornets, wasps and yellow jackets (TIME. Aug. 19. 1957) accounted for 30 other deaths. In the same period all venomous snakes caused 71 deaths...