Word: magoon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Asseyev, formerly a professor of philosophy at the University of Leningrad attempted to jump onto the track in the Harvard Square MTA station at 4:30 p.m. Saturday. A man in his company told an MTA starter that Asseyev was about to jump, and a fare collector, Daniel J. Magoon, ran from his booth and stopped Asseyev three to five feet from the edge of the platform, an MTA official said last night...
After a struggle with Magoon, Asseyev was taken by police to Cambridge Hospital; he was later transferred to McLean Hospital, an institution for psychiatric care in Belmont. The MTA labelled as totally false yesterday's reports that Asseyev had been lying on the track when he was saved...
...Daughters (book, music and lyrics by Eaton Magoon Jr.) conscientiously adds its mite to making this Broadway's flabbiest season in years. About equally lavish and leaden, 13 Daughters takes place in 19th century Hawaii and stars Don Ameche as an amiably wily Chinese millionaire with 13 daughters to marry off. If that is not trouble enough, there is a Hawaiian custom that no daughter can marry till the eldest does, and a Hawaiian curse that none of Ameche's shall marry at all. Before the ban gives way to the banns, there is a lot of Hawaiian...
Attorney Hoehn soon discovered something even more ridiculous: Justice of the Peace Howard Magoon jailed Teacher Olson under an obscenity law that Michigan repealed in 1957. Last week Circuit Court Judge George Baldwin threw out Olson's conviction. Any "lurid remarks" in The Stranger, ruled Baldwin, are "minor" compared to many in the Bible. But former Teacher Olson is still vainly trying to find a job of any kind in Michigan's Upper Peninsula...