Comments on: WOULD ADD TO ALPHABET

By: jayessell

jayessell — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 01:55:48 +0000

Re #3:
“Nothing Sacred” 1937 Carol Lombard / Frederick March

To redeem himself after a hoax, reporter Wallace Cook proposes a series of stories on doomed Hazel Flagg. Hazel discovers she really doesn’t have radium poisoning, but still accepts the big fling in New York that Cook offers her. At first, she has a great time, but complications arise when she and Wally fall in love, and an Austrian specialist discovers that Hazel is faking.

By: jayessell

jayessell — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 01:14:48 +0000

3rd attempted post:

http://www.radford.edu/~wkovar.....adium.html

Yikes!
I thought it was an industrial accident, not gross criminal negligence! (Plus coverup!)

80 years later we would wonder how the people who thought Radium “deadliest stuff imaginable” and the people who thought it “harmless glowey stuff” never spoke with each other.
I imagined different buildings as the only logical explaination,
but what I read implies they knew and believed they could get away with it.

By: Rick Auricchio

Rick Auricchio — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 21:42:59 +0000

Now that you mention the workers’ jaws, I vaguely remember reading that they would lick the brushes while painting.

By: Blurgle

Blurgle — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 06:24:48 +0000

jayessell, it was much more than a dozen. The best-known long-term followup of radium workers involved 1,346 workers. 40 died and upwards of 200 had some kind of long-term disability directly related to the radium. The “dozen or so” only refers to those who died specifically of osteogenic sarcoma in the jaw, not those who died of sarcoma elsewhere, and it doesn’t include those who were disfigured by radium poisoning.

By: Stannous

Stannous — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 03:00:22 +0000

The 5th language I studied was, with just 20 letters and no gender, definitely the easiest: Tagalog

There are at least 125 easily differentiated tones though they can be combined, as in Mandarin and Vietnamese, into many, many more:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tone_(linguistics)

By: Charlie

Charlie — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 20:08:19 +0000

Ha, I never read the caption, and apparently Jinx didn’t either when she scanned that. I’m guessing the alphabet article didn’t have a picture and she thought the same thing I did, that he was holding a microphone.

Good catch!

I don’t know what the actual radium article was, I’d have to find the magazine.

By: jayessell

jayessell — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 19:06:27 +0000

Charlie, why is that woman being Radium scanned?

Is she one of those watch dial painters?
(A dozen or so women were poisoned in the 1910s or 1920s by Radium ingestion.)

Was there a screwball comedy about that?
(You wouldn’t think that would be a subject for a comedy.)

By: Tim G.

Tim G. — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 17:15:53 +0000

Brings back the nostalgia of the NBA in an odd way.
“Just speak into the mic lil missy!”