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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Misery, it seems has had a cathartic effect on the Advocate. Buffeted and bruised by scissors-and-paste contributors and an overly-genteel printer who couldn't spell, the magazine has emerged from a bleak Winter bright in cover and content. In fact, the May issue is both balanced in material and extremely readable as well...
Cackle & Croak. With his affectionate patience, Dr. Lorenz has become familiar with the passions of that monogamous little fish, the cichlid. He knows the wild ecstasies of the Siamese fighting fish and the stickleback. He can spell out the intricate class consciousness of jackdaw society, for he has seen a low-ranking female mate with a high-ranking male and assume his place in the social order...
...Monday the Communist spell was broken. It was smashed by an American citizen, one who possessed more than the ordinary amount of courage and extraordinary insight. The nation owes a great debt to this citizen--Florence Birmingham of Massachusetts. For it was this Florence Birmingham who revealed to the Cambridge City Council on Monday just how the Communist schemers weakened people's minds and made them susceptible to Stalinist germinology. The secret Red Tactic was--fluorination of our drinking water. And, according to Florence, this same subtle technique (urged so strongly by our "loyal" medical profession) not only weakened people...
Your March 31 article, "The Minnesota Explosion," is a fine piece of journalism and indeed very gratifying to read. So some of the Minnesotans can't spell Eisenhower correctly? Well, the Parisians don't pronounce it comme il faut. To them, he is "General Eek" and their leading man, too. A good thing for Senator Taft that he doesn't have to worry about support from this metropolis...
...explained that whenever there is a period of rapid thaw after a cold spell, the growths, which look like a green slime on the surface of the water, multiply at a tremendous rate...