Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...change began with the phonograph. The machine which Edison invented in 1877 was an impractical toy which, as its needle scratched a cylinder of tin foil, made noises like a man strangling to death. The commercial "gramophones" which followed (colloquially called screech boxes) were not much better. But the early disc phonographs, which delivered both Caruso and Cohen on the Telephone, were too delightful to be resisted. The speed with which they became a national obsession was reflected by the financial statements of the Victor Talking Machine Co., which did $500 worth of business in 1901 and $12 million...
...Stovepipe Wells in California's Death Valley, where many a forty-niner died of thirst before he could get to the gold fields, two resort operators sank a 200-ft. shaft, brought in a well producing 40 gallons of water a minute...
...rich wife, and using a combination of hypnosis, poison, and George Couloris to turn the trick. Naturally he is conducting a Secret Amour with an earthy young damsel, and naturally the here, who would ordinarily be on his way to China, saves th Unsuspecting wife Three times from Certain Death. That a respectable film can be made with such a framework is a personal triumph for producer Mary Pickford, America's erstwhile sweetheart...
...Emperor he took private anatomy lessons from Court Physician Jean Nicolas Corvisart, but the lessons made him feel ill; often he asked doctors for some assurance that disease could not be inherited. On St. Helena, a month before his death, he returned to questions about the anatomy and physiology of the stomach. As he was dying, the hidden fear erupted in his delirium: "My father . . . the pylorus ... I have known it for a long time...
Died. Albert Mussey Johnson, 75, retired insurance executive, grubstaker of "Death Valley Scotty" and his legend of a fabulous gold mine; after an operation; in Los Angeles. Johnson met Desert Rat Scott in 1904, thereafter kept him supplied with enough money to maintain-for 26 years-the hoax of a private bonanza. Johnson built Scotty a $3,000,000 castle in the '30s, revealed in 1941 that he had also "lent" him $500,000 over three decades. Chuckled Johnson: "He paid me back in laughs...