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...shack on the edge of a Mississippi swamp. Life is simple to the point of vacuity-a little huntin', a little fishin', some wood cuttin' when the groceries run low. "Swamp sprout" that he is, Skeeter dreams mostly of a "li'l old" shotgun. Uncle Jesse has his dream too: he's going to get him a set of "Roebuckers" (false teeth) so he can "eat me a bait of hicker' nuts" and "enough roasting ears to kill a goat." When Skeeter finds him a "li'l old puppy dog" lost...
...chemical weapon against cancer has always been looked upon as ideal-such weapons as X ray or radium therapy work with an undiscriminating shotgun effect on growing tissues, healthy as well as diseased. (These techniques do not work when the disease is advanced and widespread.) But many authorities have held that chemicals, too, would prove hazardous. Sloan-Kettering's preliminary findings with rats and mice suggest that the hazard may be overcome, but the crucial test is still to come-the testing of these and other compounds on transplanted human cancers in rats and mice (TIME, April...
...Bull's-Eye. A new, low-recoil, semi-automatic shotgun that stays on target at rapid fire without riding up was put on sale by New Haven's Winchester Repeating Arms Co. Secret of the shotgun's accuracy is a recoil chamber that moves less than one-tenth of an inch, thereby softening the kick up to 30%. Price...
...Tenn., after failing to win the G.O.P. nomination for sheriff, Farmer Briscoe Holt advertised in the Jefferson County Standard: "I want to thank my 43 friends . . . for casting their votes for me, and to the rest . . . I warn you that I am now going armed with a sawed-off shotgun, because a man that has only 43 friends in a county as big as Jefferson is definitely in need of extra protection...
...Grace Kelly is not required to do much more than look beautiful and vulnerable, and she accomplishes both with patrician distinction. The fun of Dial M lies in its duel of wits, and audiences may relish seeing Milland mowed down by superior intelligence rather than by a sawed-off shotgun...