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Until the question of priority is settled, Element 61 will have no official name. Dr. Hopkins has called it illinium. Mr. Glendenin wants to call it prometheum after the Greek god Prometheus, giver of fire. One convention wag suggested grovesium, after loud-mouthed Major General Leslie R. Groves, military chief of the atom bomb project. Chemical symbol...
...lure tourists, Alberta's Social Credit government staged a "national dish" contest, offered $1,000 in prizes. Contest rules called for a dish "distinctive to Alberta" which could be served by restaurants for not more than $1. Six thousand plain and fancy recipes (including one from a wag who suggested "grilled gophers fried in Turner Valley oil with Alberta gas over a mountain range") swamped contest headquarters. Last week in Edmonton, the judges selected a plain-sounding winner...
...daily expenses to be passed along to his manager-brother, Winter D. Horton. "Taxes, you know," explains Edward, who pays taxes on considerably more than his stage & screen income. He has built, furnished and rented "seven lovely houses" on his 25-acre San Fernando Valley farm, which a Hollywood wag christened "Belleigh Acres." Edward says: "My, but it's been an easy life...
...wag set off the siren which means foul in horse racing, even L'Humanite's editors seemed to think the Russian sweep had been rather too much of a good thing. But in their shoddy, Left-Bank hotel, the Russian ladies explained it: "The French women do not plan. We won because we work and plan...
...Santa Klaus is the Dutch name for St. Nicholas, a Fourth Century bishop of Myra in Lycia. The patron saint of Russia, and of thieves, and boys & girls, he traditionally championed the weak against the strong, the poor against the rich. In 1941 the pseudo-cultural Ossewa Brand-wag (Ox Wagon) society denounced him as "a foreign importation unsuited to the ideals of the Afrikaners." Possibly because both Santa and Smuts wear white beards and benignity, the O.B. suggested that South African Christmas gifts should be brought by one Oupa (Grandfather) Voortrekker in an ox wagon...