Word: koo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Publisher John Boettiger (Seattle Post-Intelligencer), son-in-law of the President, was sued for $150,000 libel by the local county prosecutor whose reelection Boettiger is fighting. His paper alleged that the prosecutor failed to report $12,000 of his income on his tax returns. Wellington Koo Jr., 21-year-old son of the Chinese Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, was held (briefly) in Mechanicsburg, Pa., as a suspected Jap spy. Prince and Princess Guido Pignatelli's 32-room mansion near Charleston was destroyed by fire. Estimated damage: $400,000. She is the former...
...Freeman Koo '42 recently finished computing an oriental horoscope for the junk and, after prophesying a glorious future, named it and painted its title in Chinese. At the ceremonies preceding the launching, according to present plans, the old Chinese custom of serving rice will be observed...
Black and Ewing have received advice from the designer of the "Yankee," Frank Paine, of George Lawley Company which is also doing experimental naval construction. Direct assistance was given by Freeman Koo '42 as representative of the Chinese government, one of the foreign powers interested in the experiment...
...horse threw him. Three months later, in Washington, D. C., Richard Gill was flat on his back and rigid with spastic (muscle-contracting) paralysis. He remained on his back for four years. Doctors had no drug to combat his condition. One "eminent specialist" said that curare (pronounced koo-rah-reh), which contains a muscle-relaxing principle, might help. But U. S. doctors had never been able to get enough pure curare to experiment with its properties...