Word: fall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shelton,-50, youngest and meanest of the ill-famed Shelton boys, fell. He was dead in half an hour. His 59-year-old brother Carl-a big, amiable murderer, who carried a red bandanna and dressed like a hayseed-had been ambushed and killed by a machine-gunner last fall. Of the three brothers who had held Southern Illinois in fief during the noisy years of Prohibition, only Earl, grey-haired and bitter-mouthed, was left...
...three parts) on public education; Slums (in two parts) on substandard housing; 1960? Jiminy Cricket, on America's future needs and resources; and VD, on the problem of social diseases. Saudek's next for ABC: The Marshall Plan, a ¹½hour television documentary scheduled for fall. Says Saudek: "I hope it will be completely compelling...
...emissary from the University of Pennsylvania first sounded Stassen out a day after the G.O.P. convention ended-without indicating what uniyersity he represented. He found Stassen receptive. A week later Penn offered him the presidency. Last week, "after careful consideration," Harold Stassen accepted. He would report for duty next fall, he promised-if he had finished his speaking tour "on behalf of Governor Dewey...
Fort Devens College was only meant to be a makeshift. It had been hastily put together in 1946 at a former Army post to handle Massachusetts veterans who couldn't get into other overcrowded colleges. In its heyday last fall it had an enrollment of 1,750' students. Last week, signalizing the decline of the G.I. boom, Fort Devens College gave notice that it would close up next spring for lack of students. Said Dean Wentworth Williams: "We are dying a natural death...
...holding back are now conducting two of Mexico's seven symphony orchestras. His conservatory is full of students able for the first time to get complete training without leaving Mexico (although his critics impatiently say that "it hasn't yet produced one first-rate anything"). This fall the Institute will stage three commissioned one-act operas on Mexican themes. The drama department is drawing crowds. Chávez had cannily priced the tickets just under the cheapest movie in town...