Word: shellful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cabled TIME Correspondent Eric Gibbs, who watched the battle of the Jerusalem roads last week: "I stood on a high escarpment amid a crowd of Arab soldiers, watching their 105-millimeter Schneider howitzer lob big shells into Jewish convoys trying to round a perilous bend in the road, two miles away. A Haganah truck or armored car looked like a tiny beetle as it climbed slowly and unsuspectingly towards danger. As the howitzer fired, Arabs waited tensely for the shell to land, bony brown hands clutching at rifles, eyes narrowed to slits. Another instant and a black mushroom of smoke...
...early drypoints had described the hollow shell of a vanished culture, and done it literally. "The important things today," he says, "are first the chaos, murder, rape and war in the world; and second, the spirit of scientific inquiry, the interest in atoms and cellular growth." He thinks his new paintings reflect a little of the science, if not of the chaos...
Esso Cuts. Esso Standard Oil Co., last of the industry to hike prices last fall, was also the first to slash them again. It cut the prices of more than 350 products (bottled gas, roofing asphalts, industrial lubricants, etc.) from 5% to 25%. By week's end Shell Oil Co., Inc. had followed Esso Standard's lead. Unchanged: the price of gasoline...
...made a career of it. For 26 years Fort puttered in the British Museum and the New York Public Library, collecting phenomena which "science cannot explain" (he had a special fondness for unusual objects falling from the sky). He insisted that the earth was surrounded by a gelatinous shell, in which the stars were holes. Rains of fish, frogs and "blood" (water containing reddish dust particles) were brought down to earth from the shell by "teleportation," a force that worked something like gravity, only faster. He was not interested in such real mysteries as why the earth has a magnetic...
Fort's books (Lo!, Wild Talents) were enthusiastically hailed by a group of U.S. literary exhibitionists including Alexander Woollcott and Tiffany Thayer. In 1931 they formed the Fortean Society, dedicated to "the frustration of science." The society, which has no real magnetic field, just a gelatinous shell, petered out, leaving science no more frustrated than usual. But the tradition goes on. Next time the rain washes dust or pollen or algae out of the air, some newspaper will probably report that "scientists were mystified." They often are, but not by green rain...