Word: american
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prove that its shocking picture of the electrocution of Gunman James Morelli three weeks ago was no fake, the Chicago Herald-American last week uncorked a full page of photos explaining how the trick was done. As pressroom gossips had suspected, Herald-American Photographer Joe Migon had pulled back the lining of his shoe, chiseled a hole in the heel big enough to hold a tiny (3 by 1 by ¾ in.) Minox camera, then concealed it with the lining. Migon had thus carried the camera undetected past the X-ray eyes of the Cook County jail "inspecto-scope," which...
...performing his stunt again last week, Migon convinced even Warden Chester Fordney, who had been sure the Herald-American's picture was a retoucher's phony. The Hearst paper explained that taking the picture had not been merely a ghoulish, sensational trick. It had actually, it said piously, been an act of purest public service. Migon's exploit, cried the Herald-American, proved that the jail's detection system "is NOT fool proof." If "guns and saws COULD BE SMUGGLED" into jail the same way, there might be "A WHOLESALE BREAK BY PRISONERS...
...Webster Publishing Co. of St. Louis is at the top of the U.S. speller business and his idea has spread. Other publishers have long since begun turning out workbooks like Johnson's. Last week, at W.P.'s silver anniversary banquet, President Robie D. Marriner of the American Textbook Publishers Institute called the Johnson workbook "as significant as any contribution of teacher training itself during the last 25 years." To W.P., it was significant for another reason: it just went to show, he told banqueters, that a man can start with $100 and end up with a million, just...
Under the new setup there will be one 13-team organization, the National-American Football League, with Bell as commissioner. All ten of the former National League teams will be in the new league. Of the All-America's seven teams, three-the Cleveland Browns, the Baltimore Colts and the San Francisco 49ers, joined the new group; three more-the Buffalo Bills, the Los Angeles Dons and the Brooklyn-New York Yankees-will each merge with one or another of the 13 survivors. The players of the remaining team, the Chicago Hornets, will go into a common league pool...
...long established world leader, French art, is now meeting face to face with its postwar challenger, the art of America." So said the catalogue foreword to an exhibition of 50 French and 50 American paintings that opened in a Manhattan gallery last week. Culled from some 10,000 entries, the pictures on display were all related in one way or another to Christmas; they had been painted for a $28,000 contest sponsored by the U.S. manufacturer of "Hallmark" cards (TIME, July 4), and many of them would show up on Christmas-card counters eventually...