Word: forli
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Rt. Rev. Ernest William Barnes, Bishop of Birmingham, England, seems to believe that Anglican sensibilities should be shaken well at regular intervals. Last week, speaking before the Birmingham Rotary Club, he set off another of his Episcopal cannon crackers. Sterilization of "the unfit" and the killing of "defective" babies...
"Many are beginning to think that medically controlled euthanasia for defective infants should be an element in the social policy. I have met mothers of such children who have been thankful when death brought release.
Bouncy Kay Kyser sashayed onstage in a flopping cap & gown, swinging a school-bell and shouting "How y'all?" Before he grimaced goodbye an hour later, televiewers were served a mishmash of old jokes, orchestral soloists, and dazed quiz contestants whose stumbling answers to the simplest questions have been...
Kyser's solicitude for lackwit contestants may stem from his own difficulties in graduating from the University of North Carolina. The combined efforts of his erudite family (his cousin was dean of the Graduate School; his uncle founded the Pharmacy Department) barely managed to get him an A.B. degree...
Going promptly to work, pretty President Alvarez personally designed the studios (ceilings 22 ft. high, and doors wide enough to admit football floats or elephants). In three weeks she spurred admiring engineers to complete wiring that normally takes three months. Despite the competition of Oklahoma's Senator Robert S...