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...department of Architectural Design, and of late a visiting professor of Architecture at Ohio University. Frost was fatally injured when his car ran off the road and plunged into a ditch about five miles northeast of Athens, Ohio. Police said he apparently suffered a heart attack or fell asleep at the wheel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Alonso Dies; Frost Dead After Car Injury | 5/27/1952 | See Source »

...twelve-year-old calico salesman and 30 years later owned a $4,000,000 business, was a man with little interest in Paris artistic life. ("It's fine until the music starts," he would say of opéra comique. "Then I fall asleep.") But he did have a bargain-hunter's eye for valuable painting. Shopping around, he put some of his wealth into the rising crop of French moderns while they were still inexpensive. By the time he died in 1928, the Cognacq collection could boast some 300 masterpieces worth nearly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Lost to the Louvre | 5/26/1952 | See Source »

...racing along off the carrier's port quarter on "plane guard"-ready for rescue work in case a flyer missed his landing and crashed. Under the impact of the collision the Hobson sank almost instantly, with many of her complement of 14 officers and 223 men asleep or helpless below. Amid a glare of searchlights, the carrier's crew began rescue operations. Other destroyers raced in to help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Death in the Night | 5/5/1952 | See Source »

...gunmen who were fleeing from the police Tuesday night in an 85-mile-an-hour chase suffered minor fractures when they smashed up near Plympton Street. Sigtry Ofalsson, the fisherman who fell asleep at the wheel and cracked into a tree on the same spot, died last weekend in the Cambridge City Hospital...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two-Month Auto Accident Total at Tricky Mem Drive Curve Hits Seven; One Dead | 4/26/1952 | See Source »

...Half asleep as they stalk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A HARDY SAMPLER | 4/7/1952 | See Source »

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