Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan, the hero's tale of the man who jumped for the bit to stop a runaway horse was re-enacted in modern terms by a motorist named Hugh Kelly. Seeing a taxicab out of control with its driver slumped over the wheel, Kelly swung his own car in front of the cab, eased it to a stop. The cabdriver, victim of a heart attack, was dead by the time an ambulance arrived...
Finally he got a part: as a walk-on at the Playhouse Theater. Within a year he had a bit in John Gielgud's Hamlet and met his wife-to-be, Actress Merula Salaman, in Noah. (She was a tiger, he was a wolf...
...produced by Henry Adrian) treats of a summer camp for boys & girls - and particularly of four young ruffians who share a bunk with a rich man's coddled son. In its few bright moments, the play catches the addled essence of adolescence; but it keeps encoring each good bit until it turns into a bore. Worse still, A Young Man's Fancy combines a trite comedy plot with a cheap comedy trick. The little rich boy decides to play Master Fixit in a counselors' sagging romance - and pinches a textbook on sex. Thereafter, out of the mouth...
...remmember. And I also played in the East-West game. . . . I am intersed in coming to your university, this of course if you are intersed in my comming down there. . . . Sence coming out of the Army the cost of living here in Columbus; Ohio has gone up quite a bit. . . . I hope you will look into this matter as soon as possable...
Astronomers throughout most of the world got that frustrated feeling last week over a bit of news that plodded, with maddening deliberation, out of Russia. According to V. O. Fesenkov, chairman of the Meteorite Committee of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Science, a ""minor planet" landed on eastern Siberia last Feb. 12. The fragments of iron, nickel and cobalt were said to have smashed through the soil, penetrated the bedrock, and left several dozen craters-the biggest one 75 feet in diameter...