Word: careers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...indefatigable man meanwhile had been pursuing his own career as a practicing attorney. He left Tuttle's firm to go on his own. ("Anyone dropping a nickel near me was taking a chance.") He got into appeals work and until 1931 did nothing else. In the appellate division he argued 1,400 cases covering every imaginable kind of law from bastardy to bankruptcy. His first trial case was in 1931 when he defended young Herbert Singer, of the Bank of United States. He won Singer's freedom finally on an appeal. For the next 14 years...
...baseball. Danny, a New York Giant outfielder of mediocre talents, who had beetled off to join the ill-fated Mexican League in 1946, was suing baseball for $300,000-and challenging the whole system of "reserve clause" contracts which can bind a ballplayer to one club for his entire career (TIME, Feb. 21). Fortnight ago, while the World Series was going full blast, organized baseball quietly talked Danny into dropping his suit...
Died. Fritz Leiber, 66, Chicago-born, longtime Shakespearean trouper, since 1935 a Hollywood character actor (A Tale of Two Cities, The Life of Louis Pasteur) ; of a heart ailment; in Santa Monica, Calif. In a long career (beginning in 1905) of cross-country barnstorming as actor-producer, Leiber became one of Shakespeare's chief interpreters (everything from Romeo to Lear) for two generations of smalltown Americans...
Though beautiful if perhaps accidental timing, the Navy's current screams for more carriers are being backed up by a better-than-average battle movie which is almost exactly half documentary. Describing the career of a naval aviator form 1923 to the present, "Task Force" is actually the story of the aircraft carriers, which the Navy claims won the last war in the Pacific and insists will win the next...
...already had their families before coming to Radcliffe, motherhood proved no obstacle. The first during her College career managed three children, her curriculum, had a GI husband; the second managed one child, the curriculum, and the husband. Both received cum laude degrees...