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Tragedy of Hormones. When in 1920 his father saw his first Broadway hit, Beyond the Horizon, a bitter domestic drama, he grumbled: "Are you trying to send the audience home to commit suicide?" But the audiences seemed to enjoy the beating they took. In the ripe years 1920-35, O'Neill made almost $1,000,000. Three plays (Horizon, Anna Christie, Strange Interlude) won the Pulitzer Prize, and in 1936, he became the second American (after Sinclair Lewis) to win the Nobel Prize for Literature...
...Warren administration put through the "taste test" citrus program which insured the vitamin-hungry citizens of America oranges and grapefruit ripe and redolent with succulent, salubrious, satisfying juice. Governor McCarty continued this program. The Warren administration sponsored legislation outlawing highway cows and hogs [and] slightly reduced the cruel carnage of colliding cars . . . Illegal gambling had been openly operated in Florida for more than 50 years before 1949. The Warren administration suppressed all open, illegal gambling . . . and markedly reduced sneak gambling . . . TIME turned back to the Ananias tradition by alleging that Florida had a "Fuller Warren type of government-by-lobby...
...dusting, hazardous when performed with low-flying, fixed-wing aircraft, is as safe as surrey-riding when done with helicopters. The owner of a big Texas pecan grove no longer sends Mexican laborers clambering into his trees?he simply flies a helicopter over the grove when the nuts get ripe, and the rotor blows the crop to the ground before lunchtime on harvest day. The whirlybird is proving a heaven-sent device for motion-picture directors; a camera fixed in a helicopter can hang motionless high in the sky over battle scenes, or follow the U.S. Cavalry to the rescue...
...strong voices for it, notably Britain's Butler and West German Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard, the man who has done most to spark Germany's industrial boom. Erhard warned: "The word of Lenin, that you just have to destroy the currencies of capitalist countries to make them ripe for Communism, should cause all democratic countries to stop and think . .." The conference agreed that one day soon, convertibility is inevitable if Europe is ever to stand on its own two feet. A committee was appointed...
...telegram. A pair of muscular legs and two busy hands easily became a ballerina bending over to put on her tights. Said Colin: "I paint the things I consider essential. To me, women are merely subjects. A nice female breast has no greater artistic value than a ripe tomato, and a woman's torso is not necessarily more beautiful than a well-built guitar...