Word: accidentals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Laval turned philosopher. To a fellow prisoner going to death he said: "Ne t'en fais pas: it lasts only a few seconds . . . it's like being killed in a bus accident on the Place de 1'Opéra."
For Laval, death was like a very messy bus accident. He was lying on his cot as officials approached the cell to take him. Before they could reach him, he slipped a poison capsule into his mouth, rolled writhing to the floor.
Back from the wars to help Ohio State defend its Big Ten title came Paul Sar-ringhaus, the 200-lb. passing and plunging ace of '42. With All-America Guard Bill Hackett recovered from a summer auto accident, Ohio State was the Big Ten team to beat.
According to U.S. census reports, some 225 citizens kill themselves every year by deliberately overdosing themselves with sleeping pills (e.g., Lupe Velez), and another 225 die the same way by accident.
Topside Shake-Up. But for the accident of Franklin Roosevelt's death, Byrnes would now be a lawyer in Spartanburg, S.C. (pop. 32,249). He had been passed over for the Vice Presidency at Chicago; he had been passed over again for Secretary of State when Ed Stettinius got...