Word: accidentals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under Pressure. In Spokane, Wash., police arrived at the scene of a traffic accident, found Ruby Roberts enthusiastically first-aiding Victim George Neff by tearing off his clothes and announcing "I've got the pressure points," then found that his only injuries were a bumped head and a scratched...
Congress' vote to liquidate OPA might be classed as political assassination or political accident (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). But for the U.S. economy it was only an incident in the struggle to reach a national decision, the decision to have as much goods as higher prices could produce.
Died. Charles Butterworth, 46, stage & screen comedian whose hesitant, apologetic manner helped lift Hollywood comedy out of its custard-pie trough; in an automobile accident near Los Angeles, when his British roadster jumped a curb, struck a lamp post, left 180 feet of skid marks. Originally a newspaperman (said his...
Died. John Arthur ("Jack") Johnson, 68, first Negro heavyweight champion of the world (1908-15); of auto-accident in juries; near Franklinton, N.C., Texas-born, "Li'l Artha" fought for a living (and a high one) for 29 years. A fine defensive boxer, Johnson won his title from Canadian...
Coy Genius. Years later, when married, a father and famous as the author of The Scarlet Letter, he was still a recluse at heart. Young William Dean Howells went to call on him in Concord, found him "visibly shy to the point of discomfort." His Concord neighbor Bronson Alcott noted...