Word: mortems
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...venerable Ivy League was treated to an angry post-mortem after the rough-house Dartmouth-Princeton game which sidelined twelve players, including Princeton's All-America Halfback Dick Kazmaier (concussion and broken nose) and Dartmouth Quarterback Jim Miller (broken leg). Princeton Quarterback George Stevens accused Dartmouth End Don Myers of deliberately trying to knock Kazmaier out of the game; other Princetonians claimed that Myers had also wound up another play by booting a Tiger lineman in the back. ¶The rough & ready Southwest Conference produced a "grudge game" which even had the eyes of Texans popping. At one point...
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...Post Mortem. In Hamden, Conn., cops arrested Edward Bratkewitz, 21, for sending a hearse to his girl friend's house after she refused to mend their broken romance...
...seems to be looking in the wrong direction. The ferocity of Mongol hordes, commanded by a leering Orson Welles, is neatly foreshadowed in scenes of a barbaric tournament. But when they pillage and burn Chinese cities, the picture has nothing to show for it but some lines of post-mortem dialogue and a pillar of fiery smoke on the far horizon. An oily merchant announces that he is sending a caravan to Kublai Khan with rich gifts, including 81 beautiful women; Director Hathaway shows plenty of caravan, but he never brings on the dancing girls...
Doctors and technicians at Permanente made a searching post-mortem examination. This week, their conclusion was that some unknown protein factor in the boy's blood caused an explosive reaction in the father's kidneys and liver. Such a mischance, they said, could just as easily result from an ordinary injection or from any other treatment in which a foreign substance is introduced into the bloodstream...