Word: gunshots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Povl Bang-Jensen, 50, Danish diplomat attached to the United Nations, who was fired from his job for "insubordination"; by his own hand (gunshot); in New York City (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...first seven days of Michigan's deer season, 30 hunters died-four from gunshot, five by asphyxiation (gas heaters) and 21 from heart attacks...
Died. George Reeves, 45, TV's bullet-defying Superman; by his own hand (gunshot); in Beverly Hills, Calif. Though in private life Reeves resembled prissy Clark Kent more than Superman, he gloried in the role, kept in shape with bar bells beside his bed, but when Superman turned into reruns (1957) he was too closely identified with his extrahuman role to get a normal, worldly...
Died. Edward Owen Cerf, 41, assistant managing editor of LIFE, onetime senior editor of LIFE, onetime senior editor of TIME; by his own hand (gunshot); in Manhattan. Chicago-born, Oregon-reared Ed Cerf joined TIME as a writer after graduation from Princeton in 1940, the next year went into the Marine Corps, fought at Tarawa, Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, by war's end had risen to the rank of major...
...Buildings. "I know many campuses where a gunshot in the middle of the afternoon would not only hit no one; there would scarcely be anyone about to hear it. One president discovered that some 80% of all the classes in the university were held in the forenoon. He said it was hardly fair to ask the legislature for more buildings, unless the university made better use of the ones it had. After a year of urging, he succeeded in getting the proportion of morning classes reduced from...