Word: myron
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ties That Bind. In Pittsburgh, Parole Violator Myron Young, 27, left his wife Margaret, begged police to ship him back to the prison farm, explained that he would rather do forced labor "than live with that woman...
Senator William E. Jenner, however, had a less co-operative witness in Myron L. Hoch, professor at both Rutgers University and New York City College, and a former government employee. He and Jenner had a spirited shouting battle, culminating in the Senator's adjournment of the meeting. Hoch had refused to testify about his pre-1952 activities...
...Album (Sun. 7:30 p.m., ABC). Robert Newton, Myron McCormick and Melville Cooper in Mr. Glencannon Takes All, directed by Sir Cedric Hardwicke...
...industry, owes his highly profitable trade to an accidental discovery. His father made his living "shooting" oil wells (i.e., dynamiting them to loosen the oil-bearing formations). One day in 1913, when a well caught fire he discovered that a dynamite blast could snuff it out. Myron and his younger brother Floyd concentrated on oil-well fire fighting. In 1931, when Myron went to Rumania to put out a fire which had raged for two years, his fame became international...
...fire fighting from horseback. In Venezuela, when shifting winds blew the fire on to him, he spent five weeks on his stomach in a hospital recuperating. In Texas, in 1938, he saw a blast of well gas kill his brother Floyd. But the dangerous game held a lure that Myron could not resist...