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...historians have gone to all extremes to affirm or deny that Washington accepted command from Artemus Ward under a certain elm (The Washington Elm). The most convincing account shows that because of poor weather and other complications, Washington could not have accepted command under this elm. Yet for years afterward, the tree was nursed and trimmed to a ripe old age of 202. Then in 1923, the poor, wretched elm, filled with cement and braced with iron, crashed to the ground. Unwilling to give up its symbolic ghost, the city government sent bunks of the main trunk to the governors...
...statement. Caught without a script, Duke fingered his chin, said it was too bad that Larry had been a Communist, but damn courageous of him to admit it. He hoped, he added, that the confession wouldn't hurt Larry's career. At a mass meeting soon afterward, M.P.A. Vice President Hedda Hopper put the record straight. John Wayne to the contrary notwithstanding, she told the meeting and its abashed president, Larry Parks would most certainly not be forgiven. "Well, you certainly gave it to me," Duke told her with a grin. "You certainly deserved it," said Hedda. Later...
When Mittee marries Paul de Plessis, Selina goes through agonies of envy. Selina has slept with Paul before the marriage and does so afterward, whenever he turns wretchedly from Mittee's coldness. The triangle soon leads to a tangle of bitterness, with Selina and Mittee still bound by childhood memories and, at the end, suffering together when the English invade the Transvaal...
...title for either event has been set, since as in the case of Conant's other informal talks, their main purpose is to bring President and students together, with a long question period afterward. Conant has already spoken to students in the seven College Houses this year. His talks were on an off-the-record basis...
...been done to her brain. Nurse Timke had been scheduled for a minor operation on her nose, to relieve sinusitis, when she passed out cold because she was supersensitive to a local anesthetic (butacaine). It had taken 4½ minutes to open her diaphragm and begin heart massage. Afterward, the doctors could find no organic damage from oxygen starvation, but when Darline Timke first regained consciousness, she had slipped back through two years of her life. It was 1949 to her. and she was a senior at Downers Grove high school...