Word: life
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...snowdrift outside the city. Presbrey recognized her as Elsie Lanage, a friend of his own father-in-law. Presbrey took his suspicions first to his city editor, then to the sheriff. The Daily News got the inside story, and Pres-brey's father-in-law got a life term at Minnesota's Stillwater prison for murder...
...alone in the universe. The sun is an ordinary star, of very common size, temperature and chemical composition. If it has acquired planets in the normal course of its development, many millions of similar stars may have planets too. If so, there is a chance that high forms of life, perhaps higher than man, have developed on some of them...
...newcomer to journalism, Barton once wrote editorials for a Sunday supplement called Every Week and then for Redbook magazine on such homely topics as prayer, success, happiness and free enterprise ("the system of hustle and hope"). After writing his bestselling life of Jesus (The Man Nobody Knows), depicting Him as "The Founder of Modern Business," Barton did a column ("Bruce Barton Says") for McClure's syndicate. Later he signed with King Features...
Navajo, but the priests have a religion for all men, white or red or black . . . The Ten Commandments are a ladder which you climb in this life to live with God in heaven. If you don't, you won't find anything except a mess in the hereafter...
Died. Fritz Leiber, 66, Chicago-born, longtime Shakespearean trouper, since 1935 a Hollywood character actor (A Tale of Two Cities, The Life of Louis Pasteur) ; of a heart ailment; in Santa Monica, Calif. In a long career (beginning in 1905) of cross-country barnstorming as actor-producer, Leiber became one of Shakespeare's chief interpreters (everything from Romeo to Lear) for two generations of smalltown Americans...