Word: hills
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first time, two special ($5,000) Lasker awards went to members of Congress for championing increased appropriations for medical research: Alabama's Senator Lister Hill and Rhode Island's Congressman John E. Fogarty...
...under its current (No. 10) rector, Archbishop Martin J. O'Connor of Scranton, Pa. A North American graduate ('24), Archbishop O'Connor helped raise $4,000,000 for construction of the seminary's present (dedicated in 1953) six-story, brick and travertine building atop Janiculum Hill. A far cry from the old "House on Humility Street," the new college has 307 students' rooms, a 455-seat theater, infirmary, recreation and music rooms, 130,000 sq. ft. of athletic fields, and the lavishly decorated Chapel of the Immaculate Conception, with 55 separate marble altars...
...HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE (246 pp.)-Shirley Jackson-Viking...
...Eleanor's life ends in one of those terrible scenes of mental horror that Author Jackson knows so well how to contrive. The difficulty is that the story is itself caught in a straitjacket fashioned by the lines of case history. Expert as it is, The Haunting of Hill House is also haunted by too many other novels that owe their life to the father of psychoanalysis...
...pace began to tell on Freeman and Bomberger as the race wore on. With a mile to go, Fitzgerald and Mullin were running together, 25 yards ahead of their opponents. Fitzgerald outdueled his teammate on the final hill to win in 26:31, and Mullin held off late charges by Bomberger and Freeman to take second...