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...peanuts, on the outer surfaces of their windshields. At first the victims blamed vandals, then ghosts and then some mysterious molten droplets falling out of the sky. In about the time that it takes a feature story to move over a press association's wire, the ghostly, ghastly pox spread. It appeared in Seattle, in Yakima and in Spokane. It flashed up to Winnipeg, down to Amarillo, across to Milwaukee and all the way to West Islip...
Publicity & Psychology. The best explanation: 99% of the pox was produced by publicity and mass psychology. In city after city, careful study showed that most of the pockmarks were the result of normal damage-gravel, stones and other objects kicked up by a car ahead or blown by the wind. Glass experts pointed out that some of this damage might seem mysterious, because safety glass, hit by a piece of gravel, may suddenly develop a pockmark several hours later...
...Summit, Ky., Harold Murphy decided he needed a rest after a week in which 1) he lost his job, 2) his house burned down, 3) his car stalled at a railroad crossing and was smashed by a train, 4) his seven children were put to bed with chicken pox...
...blue-coats are as usual trying to get a wagon train past the redskins, and as usual they do, but only after the routine game of ring-around-a-rosy, with many an Indian biting the dust. The action is somewhat confused in this one by a chicken-pox epidemic that serves little purpose except to permit the audience and the hero (Guy Madison) to peek down the blouse of the heroine (Joan Weldon) while she is being vaccinated. The WarnerColor is pretty, too, and in stereophonic sound, the arrows seem to zip alarmingly right past the moviegoer...
...only $1 a month for an entire family. The Chicago Better Business Bureau was told by postal inspectors that 67% of the death claims were rejected, and 24% brought payments of $10 or less. Among the small-print conditions on Westminster health inSurance: policyholders were insured against chicken pox, mumps and measles-provided they were over 60 and under 80. Westminster and Koolish were indicted for fraud in 1948, but the charge was" dropped because the indictment was faultily drawn. To such charges, Koolish, who gave up punch-boards years ago, says: "That's going back a long...