Word: medico
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plate in the course of a doubleheader with the New York Giants: five walloping home runs, a major-league record. ¶The World Champion New York Yankees, currently stumbling around in the second division of the American League, got an Army reinforcement. Lieut. Bobby Brown, 29, a front-line medico for nine months with the 45th Infantry Division in Korea, announced he was available for Yankee third-base duty until July 1, when he expects to quit baseball for full-time doctoring in the San Francisco Hospital. EURJ In New York, Tommy ("Hurricane") Jackson, the two-fisted flailer who made...
...factory worker from Festus, Mo. (pop. 5,199) made medico-legal history last week by suing four cigarette manufacturers and a grocery chain for $250,000. Ira C. Lowe, 39, filed his suit in St. Louis blaming them for the cancer which caused him to lose a lung...
...feet, puffing a long pipe of Bosnian cherrywood, while he murmured that "his genius was a poor, frail thing." It was. George left Alfred half dead in a Venetian hotel and took up with his Italian doctor. "Is it in you, my Pietro," Sand wrote to her medico, "in you at long last that I shall see my dream fulfilled?" It was not in Pietro...
Died. Captain Robert Huntington, 83, who went to sea at nine as cabin boy, skippered sailing ships around Cape Horn, and in 1921, from his small Manhattan radio station (KDKF), first adopted the call for medical assistance: MEDICO-a signal which takes precedence over all other calls at sea except S O S; on Staten Island...
...Writer Nunnally Johnson's adaptation of an I.A.R. Wylie story, the stranger is an attorney (Gary Merrill) who is running out on his unfaithful wife. On a plane trip, he meets a brassy stripteaser (Shelley Winters) with a heart of gold and mother-in-law trouble, a moody medico (Michael Rennie) who is morally sick over a past misdeed, and a loudmouthed traveling salesman (Keenan Wynn). When the plane crashes, the attorney is the only one of the quartet who survives. In the process of reconstructing the three casualties' lives, his own problems conveniently fall into place...