Word: careful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sound of his own voice, not receiving letters and not answering them," recalled a frustrating incident on a train: "I saw a lady reading one of my books. Reaching across from my seat, I tapped the volume and told her, 'I am the author. Would you care for my autograph?' She fixed a frozen eye on me, then raised the book so as to obscure me. I have often wondered about her behavior." Dame Edith chimed in coolly: "I have often mused that the lady suspected you, Osbert, of having nefarious motives." Bullish Tenor Mario Lanza, who recently...
...care . . . The Constitution says that a person is innocent until proved guilty. We feel that the Platt children have had a raw deal. Their right to an education has been taken away because of the opinions and prejudice...
Last week, in Dallas' Athletic Club, some of the city's leading citizens gave a testimonial dinner to show McCormick how wrong he is about himself. Their proof: McCormick's eight-year-long campaign to get better care for children struck by tuberculosis. "Get this straight," explained McCormick defensively. "I ain't no do-gooder. I don't go out to the hospitals and dandle those kids on my knee. But something had to be done about...
McCormick started doing something after he discovered in his police-beat check on hospitals that tuberculous children under six could not get hospital care anywhere in the state. In anger he pounded out a series of articles that started one of the best-known, singlehanded crusades in Texas newspapering. Since 1946, he has crisscrossed Texas in his MG, buttonholing politicians, speaking before fund-raising rallies, and reporting his progress in the News. When a wealthy Texas widow died, McCormick persuaded her executors to use $250,000 of her estate to build a 52-bed hospital for tuberculous children. By last...
...injected dogs are watched with eagle-eyed care. Their urine and feces are examined with sensitive instruments to determine how fast the radioactive matter is being excreted. Sometimes the cages are airtight, so that the dogs' radioactive breath can be measured too. Radioactive wastes are enclosed in concrete and buried far out on a Utah desert...