Word: ironed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tower of Hope. Last week, as he does every week, a man with short-cropped, iron-grey hair, blue eyes and an easy smile stopped in at Room 102L. Dr. Cornelius Packard Rhoads, director of Memorial, the world's biggest cancer hospital, is an outstanding symbol of medicine's determined campaign against a disease which causes one out of every seven deaths in the U.S. Dr. Rhoads also heads the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, whose 14 stories rise beside the hospital. In this tower of hope, the world's most ambitious cancer research laboratory, highly...
...desperate haste, a new hunt was organized. It was not easy, because figuring out where the Bismarck would head for was just educated guesswork. Later it became known that there had been a hot argument aboard her. Captain Lindemann wanted to return to Germany; iron-willed Fleet Admiral Günther Lütjens, senior officer on board, ordered a westward dash. Systematically the Admiralty planted every available cruiser and destroyer across likely lines of escape. At 10:30 a.m. on May 26, the Bismarck was spotted by a Catalina patrol plane southwest of Ireland. This time Sir John Tovey...
...trail led to fantastic secret messages penned in lemon juice (invisible until pressed with a hot iron) on the pages of a copy of Blue Book Magazine, to old check stubs found in a discarded suitcase in a Baltimore attic, to memoranda from the German secret service uncovered in the archives of the Austrian government. McCloy traveled from Dublin to Warsaw, interviewing Irish Republicans and such German characters as the late Franz von Rintelen, who masterminded German espionage in the U.S., and Rudolph Nadolny, who was then a German secret service man in the Wilhelmstrasse and is now active...
...family vacations at Ausable Lakes in the Adirondacks, he is indefatigable. He rises to fish at 4 a.m., drags his family on walks up Iron Mountain. "After a hike with him," says chestnut-haired Ellen McCloy, "we all come home on our hands and knees." The McCloy family circle, in the yellow brick Georgetown house, includes Grandmother Anna McCloy, now 83, young John, 11, Ellen, 7, a droopy-eared beagle named Judy and an affectionate boxer named Punch...
...hoodlums who broke into Engelhard's drab South Side apartment in April 1948 were counting on a big haul, but all they got was $12. Just the day before, Engelhard had deposited his cash in a bank. The maddened robbers beat Engelhard over the head with an iron pipe and left...