Word: deaths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Southern Cal's beefy bruisers, the West Coast champs, were not clubbed to death. They were just hoodwinked and whipsawed by Michigan's slickers. Jack Weisenburger, Crisler's sturdy spinning fullback, started most of Michigan's backfield ballet and ball-handling hocuspocus, and chewed through the center of Southern Cal's bewildered line for three Michigan touchdowns. Trigger Man Bob Chappuis (TIME, Nov. 3), who admitted later that he wasn't quite up to snuff, completed only 14 of 24 passes (two for touchdowns), passed and ran the ball 279 yards...
Manhattan's Communist New Masses, butcher-paper bible of the far left, last week had a birthday-its 37th and its last. Mounting costs had starved it to death; the 1947 deficit was an unmanageable $65,000. In two doleful, defiant pages, the editors wrote the obituary of a Marxist magazine that had first attracted, then repelled, some of the most brilliant writers...
Elgin's ministers decided to go ahead with their pamphlet, called it "When Death Comes." Its main points...
...Mary Scott Lord Dimmick Harrison, 89, widow of Benjamin Harrison, 23rd U.S. President; in Manhattan. A niece of Harrison's first wife, she helped out as White House hostess during her aunt's last illness, married Harrison in 1896, 3½ years after her aunt's death, three years after Harrison left the White House...
...Fever. In all the optimistic bustle, there was only one area of quiet deflation: the stockmarket. The great wartime bull market had died in 1946, scared to death by fear of the recession that is not yet here. Yet the stockmarket went right on acting as if recession were just around the corner. Wall Streeters wryly quipped that New York Stock Exchange President Emil Schram "was the one man in the country to reduce prices...