Word: discovereres
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¶ The New York Yankees, often accused of buying up all the best ballplayers, tried a new talent-grabbing trick. Yankee scouts spotted Billy Joe Moore, 24, playing first base for the Oklahoma State Prison team. Though Moore, doing a seven-year stretch for burglary, is not due for release...
Citation: "Scholar and writer . . . a man broad and humanistic in his learning and his teaching . . . Without doubt, the greatest achievement arising out of [his] interest is his current project, a monumental history of United States naval operations, World War II ... [We] express the wish that he continue to enjoy . . . '...
Flash-Dater. Finding the age of ancient objects by radioactive Carbon 14 depends on supersensitive measuring apparatus. Professor Willard F. Libby, University of Chicago discoverer of Carbon 14 dating, uses a Geiger counter surrounded by a shield and other protections against intruding radiation. Chicago's Professor James R. Arnold...
As a self-billed "Merchant of Venus," Walter Thornton ran one of the three biggest model agencies in the U.S. He claims to be the discoverer of Lauren Bacall, Susan Hayward, Dorothy McGuire, Lizabeth Scott and Arlene Dahl, and the first to use the phrase "pinup girl." He also has...
Married. Sir Alexander Fleming, 71, Nobel Prizewinning discoverer of penicillin; and Mrs. Amalia Coutsouris, 40, a fellow microbe-hunter and Greek underground heroine; both for the second time; in London.