Word: tales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...defense of a herd of Texas goats. Outraged by a report that the goats are being plugged with high-powered rifles at Fort Sam Houston in order to give Army medics practice in treating battlefield casualties, Conservationist Neuberger demanded that Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson investigate the tale and end any such inhumane target practice. At week's end, Wilson had made no reply to Neuberger, nor had the Pentagon made any move to deny that the goats are under fire, not only in Texas, but also at the Army Chemical Center in Maryland...
...past three decades -are Easter Parade, Mrs. Miniver, Random Harvest, Gaslight, National Velvet, The Great Ziegfeld, Boys Town, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, The Wizard of Oz, Big House, Grand Hotel, San Francisco, Mutiny on the Bounty, The Good Earth, Little Women, The Three Musketeers, David Copperfield, Treasure Island, A Tale of Two Cities...
Feather and the Salmon, a fairy tale written some years ago by Christian Pineau, now France's Foreign Minister, tells of a little boy who is carried on a salmon's back to an island inhabited only by birds and a man-eating serpent. The boy, undismayed at the sight of the bones of previous victims, succeeds in establishing good relations with the serpent...
...Tale of the Tub. In Wolverhampton, England, Dr. Sidney C. Dyke blamed Britain's threatened water shortage on "the cult of the domestic bath," wrote to the British -Medical Journal: "It is an obvious fallacy that frequent immersion in hot water has any hygienic value whatsoever. Its appeal is purely sensuous...
...Pocketful of Acorns. What that doom might be-a universal death for all mankind in a new war-Author Gascar hints at most movingly in his last and longest tale, The Season of the Dead. It is about the Nazi massacre of east European Jewry. The story is not new, but this is perhaps one of the rare times that a writer of fiction has taken it through the tunnel of horrors into the light...