Word: erwin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like the newspaper he edits, solid, affable Erwin Dain ("Spike") Canham of the Christian Science Monitor seldom raises his voice. When he does, he gets a hearing. Last week Editor Canham left his desk in Boston to speak to a meeting of newspaper admen in Chicago. At the end of his speech came a stinger...
Died. Dr. Clarence Erwin McClung, 75, University of Pennsylvania zoologist and geneticist who discovered the relationship between chromosomes and sex determination by examining grasshoppers (he collected 100,000, once had a 20-man WPA team helping him cut them up); of a heart attack; in Swarthmore...
...than once, Patton had said that he wanted to die on the battlefield. Man in Armor. A cavalryman by training and by temperament, California-born George Patton was the medieval man on horseback-in mechanized armor. Even before his country was at war, he wanted to joust with Nazi Erwin Rommel-each contestant in a tank. "The two armies could watch," said he. "I'd shoot at him, he'd shoot at me. If I killed him, I'd be the champ. If he killed me-well...
...block-long sentences gave way to the living, somewhat strained voice of the trial's first witness. To the microphone came a tall, cadaverous-looking man whose bald head shone brightly under the floodlights; dark glasses and earphones gave him a horror-story air. He was Major General Erwin Lahousen, aide to the late, little-known Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, chief of the Wehrmacht's counterintelligence. After the unsuccessful bomb attempt on the Führer's life in July 1944, Canaris was slowly strangled with piano wire...
Whatever laughs arise in the darkened Wilbur spring from the wondrous dead-pan of Stuart Erwin, who is the father. Other people walk around the stage as the plot thickens, but he is the only one even mildly out of type. If this is the best George Abbot, one of the best producers around, can do in the way of entertainment, one can see why the Broadway critics are predicting the slow death of the legitimate theater. In silent moments at the Wilbur, one can almost hear the final, choking rattle...