Word: edmunds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Died. Edmund Gwenn, 83, British-born actor who for the last couple of decades invariably played the roles of kindly, puckish old men, won the 1947 Academy Award for best supporting actor as a benign Santa Claus in Miracle on 34th Street, was a close friend of George Bernard Shaw, who cast him in many of his plays in the early 1900s; in Woodland Hills, Calif...
...know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people." said Britain's Edmund Burke 175 years ago. Last week, on the 20th anniversary of the day that Nazi tanks rolled into western Poland and lit the flames of World War II. many of the political and intellectual leaders of West Germany, ignoring Burke's admonition, soberly indicted themselves and all their countrymen...
...Died. Edmund Newton Harvey, 71, Princeton biology professor who developed the world's foremost laboratory for the study of bioluminescence, documented his discovery (Living Light, Bioluminescence) that light emitted by certain organisms (fireflies, squid) indicates their growth and functioning; of a heart attack; in Woods Hole, Mass. In 1931, in collaboration with New York Banker Alfred Lee Loomis, Harvey invented the centrifuge microscope, which makes cell division observable by whirling the cells at a rate of 20,000 revolutions a minute...
BITTER HARVEST (313 pp.)-Edited by Edmund Stillman, introduction by François Bondy-Praeger...
Piety in the Sky. Kozlov was on hand at 6:30 next morning, more chipper than the night before, to board his chartered airliner for a lunch date with California's Governor Edmund G. Brown in Sacramento. He slept during much of the trip but managed to rouse himself long enough to hold an airborne press conference. First crack out of the box, Hearst Reporter David Sentner asked Kozlov why Khrushchev did not curb subversive activities of U.S. Communists. The question seemed to shock Ambassador Menshikov, but not Kozlov. Said he blandly: "Our country never interferes in the internal...