Word: charlestoned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Last year he came to the aid of J. Robert Oppenheimer (TIME, June 14). He lost both cases. A year ago, on the eve of his 81st birthday, Lawyer Davis complained that he was getting old: "Most of the crowd I worked with are gone." Last week in Charleston, S.C., John W. Davis lost a bout with pneumonia, and rejoined the old crowd.* It was just three weeks before his (and Thomas Jefferson's) birthday...
Died. John William Davis, 81, dean of U.S. corporation and constitutional lawyers and onetime (1924) Democratic candidate for President; of pneumonia; in Charleston, S.C. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
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Newsmen huddled on cold (10°), windy (40 m.p.h.) Mt. Charleston, nearly 50 miles away, muttered with frustration. The blast was a disappointment: the sky lit up with a dull red glow for a second; the mushroom cloud was hidden in the dark overcast; the sound bounced over Mt. Charleston completely...
Sheltering Smoke. Speaking last week to the Charleston (W. Va.) chapter of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Major General William M. Creasy of the Army Chemical Corps described a partial measure of atomic defense. One way to reduce casualties from nuclear explosions, he said, is to cover each threatened city with a blanket of dense, black smoke...