Word: carl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...WILL THE BETTER WORLD BE? -Carl L. Becker-Knopf...
...lumbering, good-natured Senator Edwin Carl. Johnson of Colorado, conservative and once isolationist, is no statesman. But he is: 1) a hardworking, courageous public servant; 2) an able politician whose sensitivity to public opinion has carried him from beginnings as a railroad laborer to four terms in the Colorado Legislature, one term as Lieutenant Governor, two terms as Governor, and his present second term in the U.S. Senate. These attributes are what gave significance to the Chicago speech last week in which long rebellious Ed Johnson blasted Franklin Roosevelt hardest of any Democratic Senator...
Died. Dr. Carl Koller, 86, eye specialist, first doctor to use cocaine as a local anesthetic; in Manhattan. In 1884 Koller collaborated with the late, great Sigmund Freud in testing cocaine's influence on muscular strength, digressed to try the drug on an animal's eye, soon demonstrated the boon in many operations...
Three Trumps. Mahurin is tied for fifth place among U.S. aces of World War II. Of the first ten, Major Walter Carl Beckham is the only other one who fought Germans. His Thunderbolt was downed by flak three weeks after his 18th victory (TIME, March 13). The only other Army man on the list is much-decorated Lockheed Lightning Pilot Captain Richard R. Bong (D.S.C., D.F.C., Silver Star, Air Medal, a cluster of ten Oak Leaf Clusters), whose 21 Jap kills put him in fourth place...
...with 19, is 28-year-old Lieut. Colonel John Lucian Smith Jr. (Wildcat) and No. 9, nosing out Beckham with 18, is Major Marion E. Carl (Wildcat...