Word: graftings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there are no new underclassmen interested. But there are other perennial bumps which the Dramatic Club has to ride each year. The University offers no Faculty advice or financial aid, but contents itself with charging $200 a clip for the use of Sanders Theatre. The Maintenance Dept. pockets petty graft for hanging curtains, planting invisible watchmen, sending prying inspectors. The real socko of all, however--the knock down punch--comes when no audience appears after three weeks of tough work. After flunking exams, losing sleep and sanity, thinking all the time that one's work is worthwhile, there...
...British surgeon recently did a mastoid operation on a middle-aged man who had once been a sailor. He decided to graft some skin from elsewhere on the patient's body to the site of the operation, behind his ear. When the surgeon viewed the patient's body, he found it almost completely covered with tattooed images of naked women (one named Mary) and erotic designs. Last week in the Lancet, the surgeon, writing anonymously, told how he faced his problem...
Professional Soldier Lamb shakes a sad head over the undisciplined, insubordinate American soldiery, their treacherous breaches of warfare's rules, the jealousies among their generals. Sadder still, with no inexperience to excuse them, are Britain's graft-rotten sea transport, uncoordinated military plans, incompetent ministers in London. Roger Lamb's sharp eyes are open also to the wonders of the New World: St. Lawrence scenery, hoop snakes, strange herbs, the odd customs of the Indians and the Yankees. He also has a fresh-air affair with Kate, an enemy's wife. But though the sergeant vomits...
...Screen Actors Guild to ferret out any misdemeanors. No report was ever made public by the Guild, but several months later Central had a new manager in blond, pipe-smoking Howard Philbrick, a former G-man who had made a name for himself in California with an investigation of graft in the State Legislature. Philbrick quietly set up a watchdog system over his underlings, announced he would make no radical changes in Central's methods until the Standing Committee's report came through...
When Burton became mayor of Cleveland in 1935, the city was infested with underworld mobs, riddled with police graft. He appointed young Eliot Ness safety director, started a clean-up which had spectacular results. One racketeer it dredged up was Albert Ruddy, who this week was convicted of shaking down building contractors for thousands of dollars during his 20-year reign as a union tsar. Burton earned for Cleveland, once a city shamed by its record of traffic deaths, the National Safety Award in 1939 and 1940. He turned his attention to public health, and this year Cleveland...