Word: ills
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Best Friend. In Detroit, Glen Stewart asked the court to be lenient with the dog that bit him: "I suffered no ill effects but the dog got sick...
Frost was still on the grass at Savanna, Ill. (pop. 6,000) when he told 800 early risers: "I hope you don't catch cold. But I suppose you Illinois folks are used to this weather." As the train rolled along the upper Mississippi, he climbed up into the vista-dome car provided by the Burlington Railroad, gazed out at the great river that licked at the roadbed. He cracked that the Mississippi didn't really get big until it was joined by the Missouri...
...since 1937, except for a year with Eva Le Gallienne and Margaret Webster running the ill-fated American Repertory Theater, Producer Crawford hunts tirelessly for scripts that offer "something different." Now on her schedule: a melodrama, a musical and a new Paul Green adaptation of Ibsen's Peer Gynt, starring John Garfield...
Zaisser's army has a planned initial strength of 45,000 men. It began as an elite officer-training cadre for the Volkspolizei (People's Police), which was-and is-an ill-organized, straggling, desertion-ridden mob of 250,000 men. In the year it has been in operation, the Volkspolizei has proved to be unreliable for the Reds' long-range purposes...
Died. Herbert Wells Fay, 90, for 27 years custodian of Abraham Lincoln's tomb, known to scholars the world over for his extensive collection of Lincolniana (he had more than a million items); in Springfield, Ill...