Word: myron
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would like very much to associate this gift with the spirit of Christmas." With these words Industrialist Myron C. Taylor last week presented Cornell University with a Christmas present that was notable indeed-$1,500,000. Its purpose: to establish a student interfaith building in memory of his wife. The new structure will contain a chapel dedicated to Cornell men who died in World War II, an "All Nations" room, an auditorium, and offices for twelve cooperating church groups. Episcopalian Taylor (Cornell law school 1894; presidential envoy to the Vatican since 1939) has already given the university its law school...
...storm. But in Kansas, Mrs. Maxine Laughlin, 30, of Jetmore, who was eight months pregnant, got in her car and drove to Dodge City for a prenatal checkup. The car stalled; she set out afoot and was found dead in an eight-foot drift. In Stromsburg, Neb., Myron and Emeral Johnson bogged down in their car trying to reach a veterinarian with their sick dog. Somehow the dog staggered home but the brothers were found frozen to death in a field. Near Oberlin, Kans., an automobile aerial protruding from the snow led searchers to a suffocated motorist...
Richard Edelman, Marvin Stern, and Malcolm Bloch have been named to the entertainment committee while Myron Finer, Norman Dickter, and Raymond Fitch will handle the decorations. The committee's next dance will be the Yale Dater, with Stan Harris' orchestra playing. Tickets go on sale tomorrow and only a limited number will be available...
...paternity suit brought against Myron C. Taylor, venerable presidential envoy to the Vatican, was thrown out of court a second time, because the defendant was in Manhattan and the court was in Chicago. Mrs. Eunice Walterman, a Chicago housewife, had claimed that she was his illegitimate daughter...
...atomic-energy by-product (radioactive sodium) is being used to study blood circulation. Drs. Myron Prinzmetal and Eliot Corday of Los Angeles' Cedars of Lebanon Hospital inject the sodium into a patient's veins, place a Geiger counter over the heart, record the appearance of the tagged blood on a special machine. Their method, they reported, spots enlarged hearts sooner than any other...