Word: neb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stage-Struclc. In Broken Bow, Neb., while participating in an Old West celebration, Banker Thomas T. Varney Jr. fired blanks enthusiastically at fleeing make-believe robbers, discovered too late that the shells were loaded with birdshot, sent one of his victims a new hat, the other an air pillow...
Hanson: The Lament for Beowulf (Howard Hanson conducting the Eastman-Rochester Orchestra and Eastman School of Music Chorus; Mercury, mono and stereo). An early (1925), timbrel-thumping excursion into myth that seems as far from Anglo-Saxon England as Composer Hanson's birthplace (Wahoo, Neb.). The chorus protests too much, but in the gently welling final eulogy, the work stirs with a sweetly nostalgic, gracefully dappled light...
Still hardest hit were the year's first epidemic areas. Kansas City, Mo. and Des Moines (TIME, July 13). Near epidemic rates were noted in Little Rock, Ark., Wichita, Kans., Lincoln, Neb., Montgomery, Ala. and Oklahoma City. Clusters of cases occurred in New Haven, Conn., Yonkers, N.Y., Charleston, W. Va. and Nashville, Tenn. True to the early-season pattern, outbreaks were mainly in slum areas. Though many victims had had one or two shots of vaccine, few had had the three-dose course, fewer still the fourth (booster) shot now recommended...
...credit, in some cases not even exams. But the pace is such that Cooper Union President Edwin S. Burdell, a sociologist, walked out of a class last fortnight, saying: "It's over my head." Said Northwestern's lanky Timothy Brown, 16, who comes from Lexington, Neb.: "I only wish I could be five people so I could take it all in." The thing all the youngsters like best is the grown-up atmosphere in the labs. "It's not like high school, where the teachers are standing over you and threatening," said Edward M. Chait...
Died. Charles Starkweather, 20, mass murderer who in 1958 shot, stabbed and clubbed to death ten people, including friends, foes and strangers, in a wild, inexplicable, three-day spree with his 14-year-old girl friend; by electrocution; in Lincoln, Neb...