Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Flaming Silhouettes. Neighbors awakened by screams and the tinkling crash of breaking windows, ran out to stare into a nightmare. St. Anthony's a plain, white-trimmed brick building, had stood in Effingham for 73 years; it was the only hospital in the county and its white-garbed Franciscan nuns had tended generations of the aged and the injured, the newborn and the dying. Now flame flickered and glared from behind almost every window and silhouetted frantic figures-nuns, nurses, patients in hospital gowns...
...using a putter borrowed from Ben Hogan, who was still convalescing from a near-fatal auto crash. On the last green Sam eyed a tricky, 20-foot putt, then stepped up and tapped the ball with Hogan's putter. It rolled straight.and true for a birdie, a 67 for the round, 282 for the tournament. Said Sammy: "Who was the bum that started the story about I can't putt?" At 36, after ten tries, Sam Snead had finally won a Masters. It was his third tournament victory in a month...
...months after he broke pelvis, collarbone, ankle and rib in an auto crash, Golfer Ben Hogan was driven to the El Paso railroad station, and wheeled to the train. He managed to walk the length of a Pullman car by himself and settled down for the 16-hour trip back home to Fort Worth...
Died. Willard Henry Dow, 52, president (since 1930) of gigantic Dow Chemical Co. (600 products); in a private airplane crash; near London, Ont. From a modest beginning by Dow's father in 1897, Dow Chemical became the largest producer of magnesium (mined from sea water) in World War II, did a $170 million business last year in industrial and agricultural chemicals, plastics, pharmaceuticals and magnesium...
...with old Broadway friends. Soon he had a new one: Actress Betty Compton. Their relationship became a Page One scandal. "If you have to be a sneak to get votes," snapped Jimmy, "then count me out right now." All went as gaily as a magic-carpet ride-until the Crash. In 1931, the New York state legis- lature voted an investigation of charges of corruption in the Walker administration. "A tempest in a pot," said Jimmy...