Word: odd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Angeles court to appoint himself and another friend as the lantern-jawed, two-gunman's lawful guardians. William S. Hart Jr. begged to differ; he (and a bank) should get the guardian assignment. While the legalistic bullets whined and sang, the old hero, who admits to 70-odd and is worth about $1,000,000, lay beyond the battle, gravely ill in a Los Angeles hospital...
...Manhattan, W.N.U. executives said that the Florida weeklies would be guinea pigs in an experiment designed 1) to test reader reaction to W.N.U.'s 100-odd canned features (comics, news pictures, fiction, Drew Pearson, Walter Winchell, patterns, editorials, etc.); 2) to show U.S. country editors how to put out better, more profitable papers. But expansive John H. Perry said he had even bigger plans: a nationwide system of state newspaper chains...
...promptly put themselves on record for Taylor's recall. Finally, last week, Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, president of the Federal Council of Churches, led a ten-man interdenominational delegation to the White House and presented the President with a document embodying the resolutions, as well as 30-odd more from other conferences and denominational groups...
...been 80-odd years since Nathaniel Hawthorne died, but the mystery of his life has never been completely explained. One biographer, Newton Arvin (Hawthorne, 1929), has now selected 29 Hawthorne short stories for this new edition, the majority from Twice-Told Tales and Mosses from an Old Manse. Most of the old Hawthorne favorites are here: Peter Goldthwaite and his hidden treasure, Dr. Rappaccini and his deadly daughter, Ethan Brand and his fiery furnace, the Great Carbuncle shining with its "awful blaze...
College sport-addicts will get their first opportunity to see what Harvard's 800-odd newcomers have to offer in the way of athletic talent this afternoon, when Adolf Samborski, taking over the Crimson baseball worries from the vacation departed Floyd Stahl, assembles his summer squad at 2:30 o'clock at Soldier's Field...