Word: chilluns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Roark Bradford, 52, Tennessee-born author (Ol' Man Adams an' His Chillun' was dramatized as The Green Pastures) who specialized in Negro dialect stories; of amoebiasis (contracted in World War II); in New Orleans...
...onetime Broadway actress, onetime wife of Litterateur Edmund Wilson (the first of his four); of tuberculosis; in Pittsburgh. Leading lady in several Eugene O'Neill plays, she created a furore in 1924 when, as Negro Actor Paul Robeson's play-wife in All God's Chillun Got Wings, she nightly kissed his hand onstage...
...Chillun. He took as his target the now well-known article by "X" which recently appeared in the magazine Foreign Affairs. "X" was George Kennan, top State Department planner and Russian expert. The State Department denied that the article inspired the Truman Doctrine, but the thinking behind both was certainly cut from the same cloth...
...Fair (and later of the San Francisco Fair). It was the only major concession at the Fair that made a nickel. In two seasons, it made Billy more than $1,000,000 clear profit. Billy knows the reason: "All God's chillun...
Antibiotics, of which penicillin (rhymes with "all God's chillun") is the most famed, are now the objects of the most exciting search in all bacteriology. In dozens of laboratories, experts are looking for antibiotics to fight the many diseases penicillin cannot cure: tuberculosis, leprosy, cholera, dysentery, tularemia, salmonella food poisoning, many virus diseases. Already about 20 substances with such fancy names as clavacin, gliotoxin, patulin have been isolated from bacteria and molds, tested, discarded as either too weak or poisonous...