Word: davids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Admiral David Foote Sellers, 74, onetime Commander in Chief of the U.S. Fleet (1933-34) and Superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy (1934-38); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Bethesda...
...Quintessence of Maladresse." When the gabble of 21 electioneering parties had died down, 427,000 voters (including 30,000 Arabs) went to the polls in Israel's first election. Premier David Ben-Gurion's Mapai (Labor Party) polled 35% of the vote, more than double the total of its nearest competitor. Closely bunched were the left-wing United Workers, which want alignment with Russia; the United Religious Front, which wants a state conforming to the Talmud; and the ultranationalist Freedom Movement, which wants a conquest of Palestine and Transjordan before peace is made with the Arabs. The Communists...
...reason to get panicky, the AEC said in its best scientific manner, but the U.S. must realize that the use of radioactive substances is increasing rapidly. Public health authorities must familiarize themselves with radioactivity as a regular problem. In the curriculum of the atomic age, said AEC Chairman David E. Lilienthal, radiation "has become a kind of fourth...
...Beverly Hills Hotel was kept ringing by cinema celebrities eager to entertain him. The evening he arrived, he dined with Ingrid Bergman (he expects to sign her up for his next picture). The next night there was a small, stylish dinner given by Writer-Director Billy Wilder. One morning David O. Selznick called...
...sudden death Tuesday morning of 20 year-old Walter A. Pollano '50 in his Adams F-21 room is still very much "under investigation," Cambridge Medical Examiner David C. Dow announced, last night. Unsatisfied with Tuesday night's autopsy, Dow yesterday morning turned certain tissues over to the Medical School's Department of Criminal Medicine for critical analysis...