Word: attack
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stretch their policy of planned entertainment into every waking hour. Gone are the toomlers, the noisy resident clown's who sang welcome and farewell songs for guests and yakked it up all over the lobby. Instead, there are art schools, beauty parlors as jammed as airraid shelters under attack, discussion groups, dancing classes. And everywhere, from swimming pool to dining room, there is the lavish style show that the guests put on themselves. The dawn-to-dawn display of jewels and furs has been known to disconcert even the G's well-trained staff. Last week a waiter...
...help. The present agreement makes the stricken city an urban redevelopment district. Two million dollars will come from the Federal Government, $1,000,000 from the state. Homes and other real estate in the threatened area (130 acres) will be-bought at fair prices. Then massive dragline excavators will attack the fire by digging huge trenches around the burning coal...
Died. The Rev. George Bolton, 59, British-born pastor (1942-59) of the Christian Herald's Bowery Mission, a onetime gambler who wandered aimlessly from city to city, was picked up by a pastor in a Bowery basement where he had gone to sleep; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Restored and reunited with the wife he deserted in England 14 years before, Bolton turned to helping others, called his congregation of penniless wanderers the "most desperate, most defeated, most faithful in the world," established a "halfway" center to prepare them for a return to normal society...
...hospital, gradually won a place at his old school. This season, with 24 returning lettermen, was to be the year for North Carolina. But fortnight ago, his huge 240-lb. body covered with a red rash, Jim Tatum was rushed to the university hospital. Doctors diagnosed an overwhelming attack of a "common type of virus" that had affected his vital organs. Last week, at 45, Coach Jim Tatum died...
Died. Edmund Newton Harvey, 71, Princeton biology professor who developed the world's foremost laboratory for the study of bioluminescence, documented his discovery (Living Light, Bioluminescence) that light emitted by certain organisms (fireflies, squid) indicates their growth and functioning; of a heart attack; in Woods Hole, Mass. In 1931, in collaboration with New York Banker Alfred Lee Loomis, Harvey invented the centrifuge microscope, which makes cell division observable by whirling the cells at a rate of 20,000 revolutions a minute...