Word: deaths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...depreciated either; while they are not much bigger than most of their ilk, they are fast enough to run interference for such men as Win Scott. All this adds up to a defensive problem for the Crimson, for fast-breaking plays can easily spell the death of a team which has already displayed many imperfections in this department...
...Department of Legal Medicine has aided Massachusetts law-enforcement agencies for many years. When a county or district examiner in the state suspects homicide in a death, he calls the department, which dispatches pathologists, chemists and firearms experts to the scene of the crime...
...perceptive, quietly stirring books published this week, an old and a young American gave their testimony about mysticism. A Call to What Is Vital (Macmillan; $2) is the last book written by Rufus M. Jones, a Quaker elder statesman until his death last June at 85. The Seven Storey Mountain* (Harcourt Brace; $3) is the autobiography of Thomas Merton, 33, a convert to Roman Catholicism who is now a Trappist monk in Kentucky...
...Death of a Hero. The president's collar was quite a thing to wear. When Palmer took charge of the company in 1929, it was wilting badly. Cluett, Peabody sales, which reached a peak of $32 million in 1919, had been based on the Arrow Collar, as worn by women, and the clean-shaven, cleft-chinned Arrow Collar Man, a creation of Artist Joseph Leyendecker. From a million billboards and car cards, his coldly correct profile mounted on an Arrow choker gave feminine hearts a guide to male perfection. Like his culture mate, the tightly corseted Gibson Girl...
...novel that Orville Windom's grandchildren find in his strongbox after his death is not a very good novel. In fact, a reader not sharing their family interest might be tempted to say that it is the worst novel he has ever read. It is, however, the sort of novel a distinguished Supreme Court Justice might write. It is an extraordinary mixture of learning and naivete, of self-conscious poeticizing and shrewd observation, with dim characters wandering about in a grey, dreamlike fog, bumping into ghosts bearing the names of historical personages...