Word: g
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end Illinois' Governor William G. Stratton asked U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell to investigate the disappearance of Emmett Till. Said Stratton: "It now appears that those responsible for this tragic crime are not being brought to justice ... I feel it is my duty to respectfully request the U.S. Government ... to investigate the violation of rights of this Illinois citizen in another state...
...great campaign for law and order, but if you read history, you will see that the only Perfect Being did not make much of a hit with His reform." Editor Smith appealed the decision to the State Supreme Court and won a reversal. In 1948, after an ex-G.I. had been killed in an auto collision with a man just acquitted of bootlegging charges, she roasted the jury for leniency; the editorial won the year's top award of the National Federation of Press Women...
...skin of his nose was torn; his eyes were swollen shut; his face was almost black. His shoulders and thighs were covered with bruises; a hemorrhage in his left eye poured blood continuously. His heart, kidneys, liver and stomach had been damaged by internal air pressure or the terrible g forces. He sank into unconsciousness, and, while he lay dully on his bed, Air Force and Navy flight surgeons tramped through his room. At one time 18 specialists were crowding around him. In all, more than 100 physicians inspected the only living man who had bailed out of an airplane...
...unless you know what you are talking about." In 1940 Sylvania hired him away as sales-planning director; a year and four months later he was in Washington helping Banker Sidney Weinberg set up the Industry Advisory committees of the War Production Board, became Weinberg's protégé, and later an assistant to War Production Board Chief Donald Nelson. Everywhere he went, Funston's personality magically opened doors. Said a colleague: "He never battered them down. Doors opened as if by an electronic eye-the light picked him out, and the door just opened...
Another feature of the concert was the performance of two Baroque flute sonatas with the accompaniment of a harpsichord, played nicely by Sy Hayden. Flautist Eric Herz overcame some nervousness at the beginning of a sonata by Loeillet and went on to play Bach's Sonata in G minor with assurance. The work is a typical Italian trio-sonata structure enriched by Bach's genius...