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...over 3,000 years, this yarn has been good enough for millions of people.* But in the current issue of American Scientist, Dr. Arthur F. Taggart belittles it to pieces. The Golden Fleece, Dr. Taggart explains, was probably nothing but a detail of Heroic Age mining technique. The early Greeks lined their gold-washing sluices with sheepskins. The gold dust stuck to the natural grease in the wool. The same principle (the selective attraction of oily substances for certain mineral particles) is widely used today in the flotation process of concentrating metallic ores. Jason, then, according to Dr. Taggart...
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...sprawling resort hotel at French Lick Springs, Ind., famed for Pluto Water, Owner Tom Taggart invited 1,000 rich and prominent Indianans to spend a free weekend. Even the Pluto Water was free. Only expense for each guest: he must buy at least $1,000 in war bonds. The guests outdid themselves. Slapstick Cinecomedians Bud Abbott and Lou Costello conducted an auction. Boldest bid: $103,000 in bonds for a cocker-spaniel pup donated by Cinemactress Irene Dunne. Total sales that weekend in French Lick...
...Democratic Vice-Presidential candidate. He defended the League of Nations to an apathetic audience. No one then knew-since the radio was not then a political force-that his was the peerless radio voice of the future. The regular Democratic organizations had little money. The great bosses-Tom Taggart of Indiana, Charles Murphy of Tammany-knew that defeat was in the air. The local politicians hoped only to save something from the impending ruin. Arrangements were perfunctory. The candidate, with no expectation of victory, worked on toward the day when the ticket of Cox and Roosevelt would carry eleven States...
Three weeks ago, in Atlantic City, he gathered 60-odd youths and 20 maidens he had picked for his Youth Orchestra, started rehearsing them night & day, at $50 apiece a week. Atlantic City's Mayor Thomas D. Taggart Jr. gave them free lodgings at the city's swankest hotels. To season his unbaked orchestra, Stokowski added the merest pinch (18 men) of experienced Philadelphia Orchestra men, thus reducing its 100% U. S. content by about 1%. By the time he was through rehearsing he had fired a couple of woodwinds, had cajoled, scolded, flattered the rest into efficient...