Word: millers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boston, a six-year-old boy tumbled off a porch into a rosebush, was rushed to a hospital. There Surgeon Richard H. Miller probed a hole in the boy's jaw, found the broken end of a rose cane, began to pull it. Out came a rush of blood. The surgeon quickly shoved the stick back. Then he cut open the boy's neck down to the collarbone, found that the cane had gone through the jugular vein...
...Zita Miller, Park Avenue Glamor girl loudly touted as an authoress before she began writing her first book-something sexy about a girl named Flamingo Duval (TIME, April 1)-nearly had to start her career all over again at the age of 19. She 1) finished the book, 2) lost 16 chapters of the manuscript. They turned up a few days later in one of the very best restaurants...
...Trans World Airlines as vice president in charge of public relations went the youngest Rear Admiral of World War II, 43-year-old Harold B. Miller. Fitted out with flag rank when he became the Navy's Director of Public Relations in 1945, Annapolisman Miller has behind him 20 years of naval flying, four books on aviation. No armchair officer until he became the Navy's pressagent, able, handsome "Min" Miller squeaked through both the Akron and Macon disasters in the '30s, was both flying and deck officer before the Navy discovered that...
...Swede" Cook, manager of the Bunnies, faces the crucial day calmly as he places his trust in the big bats of Dan Phelan, Ben Miller, and Dick Oburchay, who have already led their softball team to the league pennant...
Ever since Dick Harlow bade a teary farewell at the close of the 1941 season to the best Varsity line Soldiers Fields has seen in recent years--a forward wall which included such rugged characters as Club Peabody Dick Pflster, Loren MacKinney, Tom Gardiner and Vern Miller--he's been wistfully seeking its equal. To predict that this year's Beef Trust will be a replica of that famous pre-war predecessor is wishful thinking only for the most partial of Crimson rooters, but a midsummer glance at the situation has enough bright spots to lead to moderately pleasant speculation...