Word: life
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...television sets for his mental patients at Louden-Knickerbocker Hall, a 63-year-old private sanatorium. Said Owner John F. Louden: "We're using TV as a form of occupational therapy, to take the patients' minds off themselves and to let them live nearer to a normal life...
Died. Burton Jesse Hendrick, 77, scholarly biographer-historian-journalist (McClure's Magazine-see PRESS) and three-time Pulitzer Prizewinner: once for history (The Victory at Sea, 1920 co-authored with Rear Admiral William Sowden Sims), twice for biography (The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, 1922; The Training of an American, 1928); of a heart ailment; in Manhattan...
...have found Lloyd's underwriters willing to bet on any risk if the customer has an insurable interest, i.e., a customer can insure that a horse will run in a race, but not that he will win. (In 1813, before that requirement, a client insured Napoleon's life & liberty for ?500.) Four-fifths of all U.S. commercial airliners are reinsured with Lloyd's members; its syndicates paid out millions in claims after the Texas City disaster...
...piece of purest fustian. The yarn it spins oncerns a young painter (Joseph Cotten) who falls in love with a twelve-year-old sprite of a girl named Jenny (Jennifer Jones). Though she has been dead for years, Jenny goes right on popping in & out of Cotten's life. What is more confusing, she is a few years older every time she appears and soon reaches an age where it is respectable for Gotten, who is aging only normally, to make love...
...Susceptible." The main facts of Shaw's life are already well-known-though, in Shaw's crusty opinion, most of them are scarcely worth knowing. "I am not at all interesting biographically. I have never killed anybody . . . Things have not happened to me: on the contrary it is I who have happened to them...