Word: newcomb
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ABANDON SHIP! (305 pp.)-Richard F. Newcomb-Holf...
Nobody Heard. The carnage caused by the torpedoes was bad enough, but what happened next resulted in the deadliest single-ship disaster the U.S. Navy ever suffered at sea. Why and how it happened is the theme of Richard Newcomb's book, which sheds sharp new light on a tragedy aggravated by bumbling...
...Gleason ended a 50-year mathematical search with his solution of "Hilbert's Fifth Problem," which won him the Newcomb Cleveland Prize for an "outstanding contribution to science...
Died. Dr. Kate Pelham Newcomb, 71, Wisconsin's famed North Woods woman doctor; of complications following surgery on a broken hip; in Wausau, Wis. Kansas-born Kate Newcomb had an ever-widening practice in a 70-mile circle around Woodruff, Wis. (pop. 550), where it was always hard sledding. Fame came to her after a "million pennies" drive to raise funds for a tiny community hospital and an appearance (1954) on TV's This Is Your Life; the TV audience ponied up $112,596, and roly-poly Kate became the subject of a sentimental biography, Doctor Kate: Angel...
Miss Boyko, however, gets some good support from Lucia French, who plays the insane mother with cunning simplicity, and from Mary Ann Donahue, an appropriately lively Sophie Newcomb school girl, who captures the young doctor. Sharon Gans, playing the gossipy Mrs. Bassett, has a good deal of trouble with her accent, but this only brings out the humor in her part. Although the supporting males are generally ineffectual, at least they aren't often on stage. Patricia Guest, as the Mexican charmer Rosa Gonzales, is perfectly sensual, but unfortunately a little too sensual. For some reason, when confronted...