Word: attacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Association wisely asks that Congress deal with each recommendation as a separate bill, rather than in an omnibus action restricting the Court's jurisdiction. Such omnibus legislation, not only dangerous but of dubious constitutional validity, was twice proposed in the Eighty-fifth Congress. The ABA's attack on this type of action and its defense of the Court as an institution are welcome...
Died. John Whorf, 56, watercolorist who had what one critic called a "breathtaking skill in depicting reality"; of a heart attack; on Cape Cod, Mass...
Died. George Antheil, 58, U.S. composer; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. In the '205, George Antheil of Trenton, N.J. became America's Bad Boy of Music (the title of his 1945 autobiography) when he wrote Ballet Mécanique "to warn the age ... of the simultaneous beauty and danger of its own unconscious mechanistic philosophy," scored it for eight pianos and a player piano, bass drums, xylophones, rattles, whistles, electric bells and an airplane propeller. This made him a special favorite of Paris intellectuals, where he knew Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, and Mrs. James Joyce...
Died. Warren ("Baby") Dodds, 64, New Orleans-born jazz drummer, one of the greats in the history of jazz; of a heart attack; in Chicago...
...world's largest switchboard handles 270,000 calls a day from more than 50,000 telephones. Two telephones (a red one connecting with U.S. bases, a black one with overseas bases) at Strategic Air Command headquarters would flash the first orders to U.S. bombers to answer an enemy attack...