Word: dead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...From the Dead. The sons of an Irish miner, Patrick and William Hurley were born in the bedraggled mining town of Lehigh, Okla., then part of the Choctaw nation. Pat had got himself a college education, launched a career that made him a millionaire, Secretary of War under Herbert Hoover, roving ambassador extraordinary for Franklin Roosevelt. Bill, two years younger, left home in 1903 at 18. In 1911, some papers bearing Bill's name were found in the raincoat of a man killed near Mexico City. They decided Bill was dead...
...phone, Pat was cautious at first. He asked Bill to name the members of the family; living and dead. Billy did not miss one. Pat began to recognize the "Choctaw drawl." Why had he hidden out all these years? "Just a quirk," said Billy. What about the man in Mexico? "I left that raincoat in an El Paso restaurant in 1908," Billy explained...
...beat the Communists to the punch. Two army divisions, under Generals Liu Kan and Yen Ming, marched south. West of Ichuan they met the Red force. Six hours later the Nationalists had suffered 20,000 casualties. Only 2,000 soldiers escaped. Both General Liu and General Yen lay dead...
...unmasking of the Heiszmeyers raised the question: Are other Nazis, listed as dead, still alive? Last week Gertrud Scholtz-Klink emphasized the doubt. "The spirit of Hitler is not dead," she declared...
...this case, it's judge meets girl. Spencer Tracy, in the title role, is a judge in Grand Republic, Minnesota, who falls in love with a girl from across the tracks. Their marriage beings to fall apart after their baby is born dead. The girl (Lana Turner) gets fed up with Grand Republic and Tracy's upperclass friends, and breaks with the judge because he won't live in New York. They are at last reunited, however, when Zachary Scott, a suave bachelor to whom she flees for consolation, explains that he really doesn't want her after...