Word: ever
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Would-be and has-been players will vie with Broadway regulars for a place in the summer sun. But, being more commercial than quaint, many a summer playhouse will depend more than ever on big names to draw vacationing theatergoers. Some stars will tour singly, others with supporting players or a whole "package" show-the growing bugaboo of resident troupes...
...years, no meeting of the American Medical Association has been complete without a rumor that contentious, energetic Dr. Morris Fishbein would be ousted as editor of A.M.A.'s Journal, which is the only official position he has ever held in U.S. medicine's topmost organization. But through most of his 37 years with A.M.A. (he will be 60 in July), Dr. Fishbein went serenely on as official spokesman for U.S. doctors. He was "Dr. A.M.A." and the man to quote on anything medical. He was quoted so often that few of his bosses ever got much attention...
...beginning, Emma made a model Scientist. She graduated from Johnson (Vt.) Normal School, taught Sunday school for the Mother Church and served as a full-time Science worker in New Hampshire. In 1898, having caught the eye of Mary Baker Eddy, she was asked to attend the last class ever taught by the founder of Christian Science...
...Conan Doyle began writing his Sherlock Holmes stories in 1887, he picked 221B Baker Street because there was no such address; the numbers stopped short of 200. But in 1931, an eight-story office building was put up at 220-223 Baker Street by the Abbey National Building Society. Ever since, the London post office has turned over to the company an average of five letters a month addressed to Holmes at 221B, and the company has dutifully answered them...
...usual, Preston Tucker had an explanation for the grand jury's action; it was "the biggest rape of free enterprise ever perpetrated on this country." Soon, however, a jury would have a chance to decide who had been raped...