Word: kermit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...since a bomb exploded in the big Meier & Frank department store (TIME, April 25), Portland, Ore. has been keyed to a high pitch-somewhere between a laugh and a scream-by fake bomb threats. Last week another bomb exploded in Portland, this time with fatal results. The victim: Oliver Kermit Smith, 35, a prominent lawyer who lived in the highly respectable Alameda district with his wife, Marjorie, 34. After an evening of gin rummy at the Columbia-Edgewater Country Club, he called his wife to say he would be home in 10 minutes; he went out to his car, switched...
...which nerve impulses are interrupted before they get to the muscles, leaving the patient pitifully weak and fatigued. Manhattan's Dr. Kermit E. Osserman reported that experiments with a new drug, pyrido-stigmin, produced partial rehabilitation of nearly half of 45 "moderate and severe cases," proved "definitely less toxic" than other drugs (e.g., neostigmine...
Sunday Morning Tag. Teddy carried daughter Alice "pig-a-back" every morning, and she took to addressing him somewhat irreverently as "Now, pig!" Little Kermit had fun "turning somersaults on the manure heap." Ethel and Archie invented a game of tag involving pokes and crossed fingers during the pastor's long prayer on Sunday mornings. Teddy played bear with Baby Quentin and assorted small fry, pouncing on them with such energy "that he tore all the gathers out of [one little girl's] frock and both buttonholes out of her petticoat." When Teddy became too violently playful, wife...
...KERMIT HABER...
...remaining sons also fought with credit in World War II. The eldest, Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt, onetime governor general of the Philippines, died of combat exhaustion in Normandy, where he served as assistant commander of the 4th Division. Businessman and Author Kermit Roosevelt, after serving with both the British and U.S. armies in both world wars, died in 1943 on active service in Alaska as a major. Archibald Roosevelt, 59, the only surviving son, was an infantry battalion commander in World War II, now runs a bond business in Manhattan...