Word: sulphureous
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...breeze-struck schoolboy of ten in New Orleans, Eugene Walet talked his father into buying him a Snipe Class sailboat. The elder Walet, who is president of the Jefferson Lake Sulphur Co., was soon shanghaied into a task familiar to the parents of juvenile sailors. Landlubber Walet began training as a weekend crewman under his son's command on Lake Ponchartrain...
...mention of the Mountain State, we think it is time to step in and defend our honor. The Kentucky julep didn't even become popular until around 1881 . . . In the early 1830s, a tavern, which later became the Old White and still later the Greenbrier Hotel at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., was famous for its mint juleps . . . But there are indications, turned up by our office, that the julep was invented right in this section early in 1800 by slaves who used a mountain brew called fulcher* whisky and garnished their master's juleps with the mint...
...month ago, at White Sulphur Springs, a pain developed in his hip, and Taft began to lose sleep. He consulted doctors at Walter Reed Hospital, in Cincinnati and in New York. The doctors prescribed deep X rays and cortisone, put him on crutches, insisted that he keep his weight off the hip bone. They also insisted that he unburden himself of most of the weighty chores that go with the job of majority leader. For that reason Taft had personally selected Knowland to handle the day-to-day routine. He would continue to handle high policy matters himself, and would...
...member of the Eisenhower Administration last week warned businessmen of their new responsibilities. "Business is on trial in Washington," Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks told a convention of magazine publishers at White Sulphur Springs, W.Va. "Business is also on trial in Wall Street and Main Street . . . In the days of Horatio Alger and Calvin Coolidge, business was the pin-up hero. Then came the financial crash and the Depression. That tragedy gave every rabble-rouser a chance to blame business . . . It has taken business more than two decades to climb back to where it is respected and trusted again...
...sent to the sunny Black Sea coast-perhaps to the very spot where his friend, French Communist Boss Maurice Thorez, spent two years demonstrating his faith in Soviet medicine before returning to Paris, an aging invalid (TIME, April 20). "They'll probably give me electrical treatment and sulphur bath . . . I'll just put myself in the hands of their doctors. I'll go on the bill of the Russian miners, I suppose," Li'l Arthur said. "I'll see you [in five weeks] . . . and you won't know...