Word: gunshots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Major James H. Doolittle Jr., U.S.A.F., 38, World War II air combat veteran (50 missions), son of Lieut. General Jimmy Doolittle; by gunshot wound, in his office, where a pistol was found on the floor near by; in Austin, Texas...
...Grayscreen Gangster." Author Kerouac is a cut-rate Thomas Wolfe, and he writes in vivid if not always lucid gushes and rushes, a style he attributes to the rambling reminiscences of his French Canadian mother. Sample, describing movies : "O grayscreen gangster cocktail rainy-day roaring gunshot spectral immortality B movie tire pile black-in-the-mist Wild-america but it's a crazy world!" In one sense, Author Kerouac's dithyrambic denial of mind may be salutary in an age that overrationalizes and overanalyzes existence. But if the concept of the beat generation can be reduced...
Died. Robert Ralph Young, 60, railroad tycoon; by his own hand (gunshot); in Palm Beach, Fla. (see BUSINESS...
...flag-waving sometime Republican U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania (1939-41, 1947-49), among those credited by Whittaker Chambers (in Witness) with hunting down the facts (while a member of the House Un-American Activities Committee) that led to the arrest and conviction of Alger Hiss; by his own hand (gunshot); at his home in Wilkinsburg...