Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Ted was a sophomore at the State University of Iowa, his father went broke in the postwar crash of land prices. Gallup made his own way with a towel service in the college locker room, later as editor of the Daily lowan. He transformed the lowan from a routine college puff sheet into a paper with national news. He began to get interested in why people read certain stories-and how many and which ones they actually do read. After graduation he stayed on at Iowa as a graduate student in psychology...
...biggest breaks giving Harvard moviemen a chance to crash into Ivy-League film circles, is a two page spread in a national magazine that will hit the newstands in August. "It may be the final boost we need," Alden added optimistically...
...city went on unceasingly. When a Soviet fighter plane dived into a British transport (15 died, including the fighter pilot), the Russians had apologized in jigtime, then as quickly reversed themselves. Wrote Red Marshal Vasily Sokolovsky in an outstandingly insulting note: attempts to blame the Russian pilot for the crash "can be interpreted by me only as defamation apparently following provocative aims." Robertson's reply was surprisingly mild; he asked for a joint investigation...
News. In San Francisco, Night City Editor Larry McManus of the Chronicle got a call from a country correspondent about a traffic policeman injured in a fall from his motorcycle, asked where the cop had been going, got the reply: "Oh, to some airplane crash...
Died. Saul Singer, 66, onetime chairman, Executive Committee of the Bank of United States, who progressed from rags to riches-and then to Sing Sing for his part in history's biggest* bank crash; of a ruptured artery; in Miami Beach. Out of jail in 1935, he headed for Texas with $75.74, started all over again, became a major independent oilman...