Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that he was Laurence Duggan, 43, of suburban Scarsdale. The routine of police process widened out, reaching for the rest of the story. He was an educated man (Exeter and Harvard '27). He had a wife and four children. He had spent 14 years in the State Department, nine as head of the Latin American Division, four as adviser on political relations. Since 1946 he had held a $15,000-a-year job as president of the Carnegie-financed Institute of International Education, which provided for a flow of exchange students between the U.S. and foreign countries...
...glider and two-man crew for an air-ground pickup. Twice the tow plane managed to snare the glider on a pickup line. Both times the glider broke through the icy crust and bogged down in the snow; the pickup line snapped. The glider's crew joined the nine stranded men on the icecap. More food and clothing were dropped, along with heaters, fuel and a collapsible plywood shelter. The shivering airmen burrowed into the snow, rigged a canvas roof overhead as protection against the gale. The days dragged...
Said the World-Telegram's front-page headline: 8 COPS, 1 DOCTOR, 1 PRIEST, NEIGHBORS DELIVER TWINS. No, said the Herald Tribune, it was 10 POLICEMEN, INTERN, PRIEST . . . Said the Sun, not to be outdone: 12 COPS ASSIST . . . (By actual count, it was nine cops.) Then the tabloid Mirror found that a mother in New Jersey had given birth to triplets, also with police help. It wrapped up both stories under the headline of the week...
While they waited for the little czar to arrive, nine headliners from the Metropolitan Opera House were marking time in Victor's Studio One (formerly a horse auction barn). Some of them clustered at the piano and timidly tried out the unfamiliar words of the oldtime fox-trot I'm Just Wild About Harry. The 11½-month-old recording ban was over (see BUSINESS), and RCA Victor publicity men had chosen as Victor's first record a Christmas message for Harry Truman...
...years ago England's waspish Critic Cyril Connolly attempted to figure out how to write a book that would attain the "immortality" of lasting for ten years-nine years longer, say, than the average novel. His own book on the subject, Enemies of Promise, has made the grade: first published in 1938, it has become a familiar, if not a favorite, of many English and U.S. intellectuals. It has now been reissued, and the story it tells is as interesting and topical as ever...