Word: escapee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Milkmen & Candelabra. The U.P. has almost no physical assets. The giant's muscles are the 4,000 U.P. staffers who keep its hundreds of news printers thumping out 60 words a minute, in 45 languages, around the clock. Their copy must be crisply written to escape the editor'...
Playhouse 90's version of Clifford Odets' "trio play," Clash by Night, was mostly a triumph of mien over message. When he wrote the play (a Broadway flop in 1942), Odets said he was trying to show "how men irresponsibly wait for the voice and strong arm of...
William Sidney Porter was an alcoholic, a liar, a convicted embezzler. He betrayed his friends, deserted his family, fled the U.S. to escape prosecution, seldom paid his debts, deceived both his wives, and led many a simple shopgirl down the garden path. Yet, as O. Henry, he also wrote some...
¶A pocket-sized, 2-lb. gadget that can serve as a resuscitator, inhalator or anesthesia machine was described by Western Reserve University's Dr. Robert A. Hingson. Already used in more than 7,000 cases for short-term (five to 15 min.) anesthesia, it delivers a nonexplosive mixture...
Died. Sir Michael William Selby Bruce, 63, descendant of Scotland's first King Robert Bruce (the spider watcher), brother of the late Actor Nigel Bruce, soldier, adventurer, author (No Escape from Adventure), and Canada's only titled newspaper columnist (the Vancouver Province); of a coronary thrombosis; in Vancouver...