Word: life
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Most eager of all are the thousands who vie weekly by mail for the 1,600 seats in Manhattan's Town Hall and a chance to heckle the speakers in person. Anxious, too, for a chance at the program are at least two hefty radio sponsors (Chrysler, Metropolitan Life), but NBC's Town Meeting of the Air is not for sale...
Died. Dr. Harvey Gushing, 70, world's No. 1 brain surgeon, author of Pulitzer-Prizewinning Life of Sir William Osler (1925), father-in-law of the President's eldest son, James Roosevelt; of a heart attack; in New Haven, Conn. Bright-eyed, white-haired Harvey Cushing's slight & stooped figure was gigantic in neurology (see p. 71). He taught and worked at Johns Hopkins, Harvard and Yale, perfected almost single-handed the techniques of many brain and nerve operations. Caring little for relaxation, less for social affairs, he labored phenomenally, sometimes spent eight hours on an operation...
...Susan Brownell Anthony II, 25, grandniece of the famed suffragette; in Washington, D. C., four days after it was announced. Mr. Dodd is currently writing the story of his father's experiences in Berlin, Miss Anthony the story of a romance in her great-aunt's life...
entitled "The Evening of Life...
...pallbearers of Cardinal Mundelein. For, instead of designating a handful of big names as honorary pallbearers, Auxiliary Bishop Bernard James Sheil, appointed administrator of the archdiocese after his superior's death, had named Chicago's whole population, 3,500,000 "common men and women who provide the life blood of the city's greatness...