Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that I, too, like W. R. Wilson [Jan. 21], feel that the U.S. places itself in a very unfavorable light by welcoming these thousands of Hungarians while thousands of Negroes who are native-born Americans live behind a veritable Iron Curtain. F. R. WILSON Pittsburgh...
...masculine voice. "I am Pepe," she said, and she began to drink wine and smoke cigarettes, play cards, and write in the handwriting of the dead Giuseppe Veraldi. She told how his friends had drugged his wine, thrown him over the bridge and beaten him to death with an iron pipe. Then she acted out the crime. Eventually she returned to her normal self when the dead boy's mother ordered '"him" to leave her. Twelve years later a letter came from one of Giuseppe Veraldi's cronies, now living in Argentina, confessing to the crime just...
...General William Morris Hoge, 63, will become board chairman of Cleveland's Interlake Iron Corp., nation's No. 1 independent pig-iron producer (sales: $125 million), filling a post vacant since 1951, when Leigh Willard died. A West Pointer ('16) with a civil engineering degree from M.I.T. ('22), topflight Army Engineer Hoge served under MacArthur as first chief of the Philippine Corps of Engineers (1935), built the Alcan Highway (1942), was a member of the group that planned and operated Omaha Beachhead on Dday. He also commanded the armored division that captured the Remagen Bridge (first...
...picture is a fairly candid camera record of how Schweitzer today, half a century after he made the central decision of his life, is still paying humanity's claim. His hospital at Lambaréné, two days up the Ogowe River, is a rough compound of iron-roofed wooden shacks in a jungle clearing. Schweitzer and his small staff-three doctors, nine nurses -work with comparatively crude instruments (complicated medical gadgets invariably break down in the jungle climate). They have modern drugs, but they do not despise the native alexins. Says Schweitzer: "I have not wanted to introduce...
Died. Carl Byoir, 68, onetime patent-medicineman (Nuxated Iron, Seedol, Kelpamalt), who in 1930 founded Carl Byoir & Associates, built the firm into one of the U.S.'s most successful publicity and propaganda mills; of cancer; in Manhattan. Drumbeater Byoir pounded out copy for all comers (among the early beneficiaries of his press-agentry: Trigger-happy Cuban Dictator Gerardo Machado, Nazi Germany's Tourist Information Office, President Roosevelt's Birthday Balls for infantile paralysis), in 1946 was fined $5,000 in a federal court for conspiring with the A. & P. chain-store firm to violate the Sherman Anti...