Word: beene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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A VERY BRUNDAGE of Chicago made his millions in the building business and his fame in sports as perennial president of the U.S. and later International Olympics. Even before 1936 (when he fired Eleanor Holm from the Olympic swimming team for sipping champagne) and until last week (when he insisted...
Virginia-born, Scottish-educated Ephraim McDowell (1771-1830), practicing in the tiny (pop. 1,000) frontier town, had dared what the most eminent surgeons in the capitals of Europe would not have attempted. Patient Crawford, who had been given only opium pills and remained conscious, reciting psalms, during the operation...
In medicine's continuing war against cigarettes as the principal cause of lung cancer, Surgeon General Leroy Burney of the U.S. Public Health Service was back in the ring last week, punching hard in another round. In the A.M.A. Journal, Dr. Burney reiterated that 1) all smokers have a...
But who was this derelict aboard the derelict, and what was he doing there? Why had the crew deserted the ship when she was obviously in no danger of sinking? Why had one man been left aboard, left for dead in the No. 4 hold? Who had set fire to...
By the time dinner was served, Hostess Holstein had lost all her anxiety, was as calm and unhurried as if a horde of servants had prepared the meal. That, in fact, was just what had happened. Except for the cooking water and seasoning, almost every bite of the appetizing meal...