Word: knowns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, Moscow's Literary Gazette proved once again that Soviet truth is relative, flexible and pragmatic. Said the Literary Gazette: "It is well known that [during the war] the coward Tito and his entourage were spending their time on the island of Vis, attending drinking parties with Randolph Churchill in the port of Bari, while [Soviet] Marshal Tolbukhin's armies, after annihilating Hitler's divisions, were occupying Belgrade . . . Such are the facts of history...
...late Rachel Kollock McDowell, longtime (28 years) religious news editor of the New York Times, was known to her more irreverent colleagues as "the lady bishop." In the hope of making news men "swear off swearing," she founded the Pure Language League, tried to get fellow staffers to sign pledges against cussing. Even in death Miss McDowell carried on her good fight. Her will, probated last week, left about $3,000 to the New York Newspaper Guild (of which she was not a member) to perpetuate the Pure Language League by distributing pamphlets. Said the Guild's Executive Vice...
...develop resistant strains of germs. Some strains learn to live with it, even becoming dependent on it-as if a rat began to fatten on rat poison. The resistant strains can be highly dangerous; if they infect another victim, he cannot be cured by streptomycin or anything else yet known...
...institute with streptomycin money, the search for better antibiotics goes on. The requirements for a new antibiotic seeking membership in the select club are getting stiffer all the time. Explains Waksman: to qualify, a new drug must kill some kinds of germs more effectively than any drug now known; it must work well in the body and not damage the body; it should be stable and soluble in water...
Montserrat (adapted from the French of Emmanuel Robles by Lillian Hellman; produced by Kermit Bloomgarden & Gilbert Miller) is a young Spanish officer sent to Venezuela in 1812 to help capture Bolivar. Actually, the idealistic Montserrat is helping to hide him-and known to be. Aware that torture will never make Montserrat talk, his ruthless colonel adopts a crueler course: he collects six innocent townspeople who are to be shot unless Montserrat speaks up. Montserrat, though horrified, refuses; and a long, harrowing ordeal begins...