Word: accidentals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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It was only a month since Speedster Enos Slaughter of the St. Louis Cardinals, galloping into first base, had spiked First Baseman Jackie Robinson. Jackie, the first avowed Negro in the history of big-league baseball, looked at his ripped stocking and bleeding leg. It might have been an accident...
Died. Katharine Smith Dos Passos, 51, wife of Novelist John Dos Passos and an author in her own right (The Private Adventure of Captain Shaw, in collaboration with Edith Shay) in an auto accident which cost her husband his right eye in Wareham, Mass.
The A.E.C.'s report contains a grisly hint about the early stages of bomb taming: "Original design, testing and construction were undertaken by a group working with the late Dr. Louis Slotin, victim of a radiation accident at the Los Alamos Laboratory in May, 1946. . . ."
It was no accident that, even as Davies, Phillips and friends signed their final papers, Yemen's Prince Saif al-Islam Abdullah stepped from a big Phillips Petroleum Co. plane at Bartlesville. He looked just like an oilman in sheikh's clothing. For eight days he had been...
Publisher Alex L. Hillman started it in November 1944, to add a touch of prestige to his profitable, hurdy-gaudy string (comic books, Real Romances, Crime Detective, etc.). Pageant went out for good bylines, good pictures and no reprints. But neither Eugene Lyons, its first editor, nor Vernon Pope, its...