Word: poohs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...orange disks or globes may well have been the exhausts of Communist night fighters. Under some conditions, jet engines have luminous exhausts that glow orange and blue. The interesting point is that the Air Force, after investigating hundreds of flying-saucer stories and pooh-poohing them all, has apparently decided to become less hostile toward mysteries...
...Mawr, where he taught after studying at Williams and Harvard. They have written six books together--a bulky Fieser and Fieser sooner or later adorns the bookshelf of every Harvard Chemistry major. The Fiesers are childless, but they own two Siamese cats. The elder cat was named "Syn K. Pooh," after Synthetic Vitamin K, which Fieser first synthesized; and the younger was named "J.G. Pooh" after Jellied Gasoline (now Known as Napalm), also developed by Fieser. "I wanted to name him Napalm, but the name was a military secret them," he says. Drawings of the cats grace the prefaces...
...Zurich clinic for further treatment of his tuberculous spinal infection, Sir Stafford Cripps felt well enough to leave his bed a few times each day, was spending the rest of his time doing crochet and tapestry designs, and rereading some of his old favorites, including Winnie the Pooh and Dr. Doolittle...
...City Manager is an issue in a campaign which is fairly issue less. The independents claim that if Atkinson is not a dictator yet, he will greedily grab power and become one if the CCA wins another election. CCA men pooh-pooh the allegation. Whether Cambridge's 52,326 registered voters will agree remains to be seen...
...remaining three stories, Arlen's "The Literary Life" is a very witty treatment of a magazine advertisement that was literally true, but Graham's attempt to apply the style of "Lifemanship" to a description of the Harvard Activities Man falls rather flat. A Pooh-style description of Registration by Osborne rounds out the issue in a sprightly manner...