Word: latelys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year-old Leverett House senior who escaped death yesterday morning after plunging before an MTA train at the Harvard Square station, was reported in "fairly good" condition late last night at McLean Hospital in Belmont...
...warning came too late. The P-38 hurtled into the passenger-jammed DC-4 with the split-second destructiveness of a huge explosive shell; its twin propellers chewed through the big plane with a shriek and its projectile impact broke the big plane's back. As the P-38 ricocheted off and plummeted into the river, the shattered transport flashed with fire and broke in two in midair...
Expatriate Raymond Duncan, the late Dancer Isadora's creaky, Hellenoid brother, long one of the sights of Paris (see cut), arrived in the U.S. to spend a year celebrating his 75th birthday. With the Attic cultist came a member of the faithful whom he introduced as Mrs. Aia Bertrand, "a sort of Svengali." He planned to put on his own opera ("a comic tragedy") in Manhattan's Town Hall, in which he would insure uniform quality by playing all the roles. Admission: free...
...Down. Brokenshire reached the top of his trade with such other pioneers as Milton Cross and Ted Husing (both still in radio), Harry von Zell (now in movies and radio on the West Coast) and the late Graham McNamee. By 1930 he had also hit the bottom, and was trying the first of many comebacks. It failed when, after a couple of years, Chesterfield fired him for unreliability...
Died. William D. Mahon, 88, veteran labor leader and oldtime crony of the late Samuel Gompers in organizing the A.F.L., for 53 years (until he retired in 1946) president of what is now the Amalgamated Association of Street, Electric Railway and Motor Coach Employees of America; in Detroit...