Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hadden often pretended ignorance, if he thought a story unclear or inadequate. Once, reading of the death of a general, a survivor of the Crimean War, he demanded a big story and shifted into Brooklynese to tell an editor why. "It ain't duh general, it's duh war," he growled. "Tell 'em what duh Crime...
...days later, as it must to all men, Death came to Briton Hadden...
Champion. The life & death story of a prizefighting heel who becomes a public hero; brilliantly played by Kirk Douglas (TIME, April...
...lawyer for last-resort cases, Gardner works without fees, has sprung two men out of the death cell and helped get two others out of the penitentiary. But Erie Stanley Gardner, counsel for the defense, is no sentimentalist. "There are a lot of guilty people in jail," says he. "You'd be surprised, but your chances of being murdered are pretty good...
Jean Barois is the story of a young Roman Catholic intellectual who breaks with church and family, becomes a freethinker, wins a reputation as a progressive by pleading the cause of Dreyfus. Gradually (after his carriage accident) he becomes dissatisfied with materialist answers to matters of life & death, and in the end returns to the fold...