Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After Mel Pattern's poor showing in the Olympics 100-meter dash, I am quite convinced that having one's picture on the cover of TIME is . . . the kiss of death...
...most sharply etched lesson of all was given in Manhattan by a dumpy little Russian schoolteacher who had been ordered to return to her homeland. Imprisoned by her countrymen, she decided that it was better to risk death instead...
Died. Enrico Cardinal Sibilia, 87, longtime Papal Nuncio to Austria (1923-35), oldest member of the College of Cardinals; in Anagni, Italy. His death created the 11th vacancy in the College in the past two years...
That was why CAB last week ordered Wildcatter Weiss to suspend all operations, declared it would register no additional wildcat lines, ordered an investigation into all wildcat "practices and activities." Weiss, whose airline faces a death sentence if the CAB order sticks, went into court, and got a ten-day stay of execution. Without blocking a metaphor, he argued that the airlines were angry because wildcatters had "pulled the ground out from under them," added that he was "not going to be shouted out of business by [an] octopus...
...buried on the Aegean island of Skyros. He was 27. His generation, bred in formal beauty and ancient peace, numbered many gallant young men; but by all accounts Brooke had the best looks and the greatest charm. Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty, wrote at his death: "Joyous, fearless, versatile, deeply instructed, with classic symmetry of mind and body, he was all one could wish England's noblest sons...