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Word: smeaton (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wild Blue Yonder. In Milwaukee, police looked for William Ferguson, lecturer (at $1 a head) on the wonders of Mars, after he 1) tried to sell Policewoman Mary Smeaton a brain-relaxing helmet and other souvenirs he said he brought back from his trip to the planet in 1947; 2) told her she would return to her home planet Saturn after 14,000 more years; 3) rhapsodized about Martian food, which the body absorbs without the need for elimination, and Martian water, which can be swum in without getting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 29, 1954 | 11/29/1954 | See Source »

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