Word: idas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sheriff-Scott Compton of Alphoretta, Ky.: "I have been a coal miner for 33 years and also a deputy sheriff of this county for eleven years. I have not shot or killed anyone, nor have I beat up anyone. I am the son of John Compton and Ida Hall Compton of Mud Creek...
Stars Over Hollywood (Sat. 12:30 p.m., CBS). Ida Lupino in Chasten...
...drama itself is confined to one basic situation: captives at the gunpoint mercy of a trigger-happy killer. But, playing this conflict for all it is worth, the movie works up a good deal of sweaty suspense without using false theatrics. As co-scripted and directed by Actress Ida Lupino. The Hitchhiker is a knowing job, as harsh and unrelieved as the barren Mexican settings against which it is played. The three main characters are almost the entire cast. Edmond O'Brien and Frank Lovejoy suffer agonizingly as the captives, and William Talman is an effective murderer. Good make...
...came the Black Death. Malcontents spread a rumor that Dr. Scudder's anti-plague inoculations were really a lethal device of the British government to reduce India's population. Even having the body temperature taken was supposed to prove fatal. Ida Scudder sallied forth alone to give inoculations, and to haul the sick to segregation camps. Many a family hid its infectious victims, and tried to appease Mariamma, goddess of plague, by animal sacrifices...
Soothing Hand. This experience, and many like it, convinced Ida Scudder that she would be foolish to go on alone in her fight to bring better health to South India's women. So she decided to open a medical school for girls. Skeptical males said she would be lucky to get three applicants; actually she had 151 the first year (1918), and has had to turn many away ever since. At first, the Reformed Church in America was the main backer of the Vellore school, but since Dr. Scudder agreed to make it coeducational it has the support...