Word: davids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pittsburgh's Eye, Ear, Nose & Throat Hospital, a surgeon picked up a hot electric needle one day last week and went to work on Mayor David L. Lawrence's left eye. Some of the tissues inside the Mayor's eye were torn. Like a welder with a torch, the surgeon thrust his needle into the back of the eyeball, heated the damaged tissues and joined them together again. The chances were good that the drastic operation would save the Mayor's eyesight...
...affluent and conservative Seattle Times, which would now have the afternoon field all to itself. For the Times (circ. 176,000), the deal was a bargain: at the markdown price of $360,000 it got the Star's precious newsprint contract. It also nipped young David T. Stern's threat to buy the paper and restore the lusty liberal voice that its late founder, E. W. ("Lusty") Scripps, gave...
...West . . . "Tommy" Stern, backed by Father J. David Stern, had gone to -Seattle a month ago (TIME, July 21), all set to take the Star off the nervous hands of a baker's dozen of local businessmen stockholders. But after a close look at Publisher Howard Parish's records he backed away; they showed that the Star was losing over $700 a day. Stern had planned to take over the option of Sheldon Sackett, an over-extended Northwest press lord. On July 31 the option lapsed, but Stern kept on dickering...
Monday through Friday, David Lene-man paints silk ties and blouses. His shimmering cravat art-fauns, peonies, moons, banjos-is strictly for cash. But on weekends he goes out to the garage back of his Hollywood house and paints for fun, in the most enjoyable way he knows...
...lush young native girl (Jean Simmons) and a splendidly dressed young nobleman (Sabu) come to the convent to learn the ways of God and of Western civilization, but stay to play peekaboo. The local nabob's insolent British handyman (David Farrar) lolls about the nunnery in shorts, displaying enough chest hair to stuff a kneeling cushion...