Word: edmunds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...coming from. In Illinois, National Committeeman Jack Arvey has virtually retired from the day-to-day problems of party management, and the once-great Cook County organization is dozing under the hand of an apathetic municipal court clerk named Joe Gill. In California, only one Democrat (Attorney General Edmund G. Brown) holds any position of importance in the state, and some of the party's wealthiest angels are snapping shut their checkbooks. California's left-wingers, who control the party machinery, have seriously contemplated abdication to see whether that might help the party win an election...
...mechanism appears to be located in the busy little adrenal glands, which secrete steroid hormones (like cortisone), said Dr. Edmund R. Clarke Jr. of Seattle's Firland Sanatorium. He and his colleagues tested the adrenal output of 109 TB patients. In general, those with abnormally low steroid levels had widespread, active tuberculosis; those with near-normal levels had the commoner, less extensive form of the disease, while others with high levels had localized but stubborn infections...
Oliver M. W. Sprague '94, Edmund Cogswell Converse Professor of Banking and Finance, Emeritus, died yesterday after a long illness...
Stalag 17 (Paramount), the 1951 Broadway hit about a Nazi prison camp, is as rowdily entertaining on the screen as it was on the stage. In the play, Authors Edmund Trzcinski and Donald Devan drew on some of their experiences while they were interned with 40,000 other prisoners of war, mostly Russians, Poles and Czechs, in the real Stalag 17 near Krems, Austria. But any similarity between the actual Stalag and its dramatic counterpart is mostly coincidental. In the movie, the fictional events range from suspense (Who is the Nazi spy posing as an American prisoner in Barracks...
Split Second (Edmund Grainger; RKO Radio) seems to be a dramatic chip off Robert Sherwood's 1935 play, The Petrified Forest. It tells of a desperado who holds a group of strangers at gunpoint mercy, but it adds an up-to-date plot switch: the action takes place in a Nevada ghost town located in a restricted testing-ground area where an atom bomb is about...