Word: air
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Duggan's family believed that he had opened the window to get air, had slipped or fainted, and had fallen. In Scarsdale, his widow, Mrs. Helen Boyd Duggan, a onetime advertising executive, angrily told newsmen: "I deny that my husband had anything to do with Whittaker Chambers or . . . with spying. It's the biggest lot of hooey I ever heard. It just isn't so-any part...
Public Servant. Duggan had been in ill health. The family said that he was overworked, had once suffered from ulcers, and still had a weak stomach; he sometimes felt nausea and the need for fresh air. Furthermore, he had not yet fully recovered from a delicate operation for the removal of a spinal disc performed last fall...
...Secretary of State Cordell Hull sprang to Duggan's defense, praised his patriotism. So did dozens of other U.S. citizens. The Columbia Broadcasting System's Edward R. Murrow (who is also chairman of the board of trustees of the Institute of International Education) spoke bitterly over the air after Duggan's death: "A dead man's character is being destroyed . . . Some of the headlines might as well have read, 'Spy Takes Life...
...began as a routine rescue operation. Within 24 hours after an Air Force C-47 disappeared over Greenland's bleak south coast, search planes spotted the crash, 100 miles north of the Air Force base at Bluie West One.* Supplies were parachuted down and a B-17 was ordered in from Goose Bay, Labrador to pick up the seven uninjured crewmen. But from then on Greenland's treacherous flying weather began sucking in rescue aircraft and men like a snow-whipped whirlpool...
...terse, cautious messages, the Air Force pumped out the bare details of one failure after another. Battling 100-m.p.h. winds and 40-below-zero temperatures, the rescuers could not even get started for three days. When they did, the B-17 swerved out of control as it swooped down on to the rutted icecap, nosed over into a snowbank and marooned its two crewmen with the others...