Word: crashingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Ray Sprigle, 71, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reporter, who won a Pulitzer Prize (1938) for revealing that Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black had been a Ku Klux Klansman; of injuries suffered in an auto crash; in Pittsburgh...
...Force's most eligible bachelors, rocket-sledding Colonel John Paul Stapp (TIME, Sept. 12, 1955), 47, now head of the Air Force's "Man in Space" Committee, is scheduled to crash through the matrimonial barrier. The bride: attractive ex-Ballerina Lillian Lanese, 33, who helps run an El Paso ballet school. Though noted for his amateur cookery (mostly steaks), Space Surgeon Stapp was not sure who will preside over the kitchen: "Just say we'll manage to eat!" Long billed as "the fastest [632 m.p.h.] man on earth," Dr. Stapp allowed that he began romancing Lillian only...
Frightened of planes ever since he saw a crash in 1951, Pitcher Newcombe could not face up to the idea of flapping about the circuit in a flying machine. So he took his troubles to a hypnotist...
Newk found a practitioner in Manhattan-one Joseph Edelman of the Hypnotism Center, Inc. He spent four $25-a-half-hour sessions listening to a suave, persuasive voice tell him that he was not really afraid, that the plane would not really crash. Newk liked that kind of pitch; early last spring a chiropractor pal tried a little amateur hypnotism and temporarily relieved his arm. Perhaps, the pitcher decided, Edelman could trance him out of all the tensions that sweat up his palms and take the hop off his high hard one in the big innings of a big game...
...public bath, rows of bodies were laid out under blankets; under one white sheet stood a bucket containing a head and three legs. Hour after hour, the casualties were totted up in hospitals and mortuaries. The final casualty list: 88 dead, no seriously injured in the third worst rail crash in Britain's history...