Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago he found he could make money turning out comic strips for the Chicago Evening News at $1 apiece. Before he was 21 the Evening News had hired him to do front page cartoons. A year later he heard that the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's cartoonist had quit, got the job, started out with a cartoon attacking the old-fashioned wooden railroad coach by depicting one as a coffin on wheels. Today, after more than 27 years with the Post-Dispatch, sandy-haired, white-mustached Fitzpatrick is one of the four top-rank daily political cartoonists...
...troubles happened to a Pennsylvania Central Airlines pilot as he left the hill-bordered Charleston (W.Va.) field, headed for Pittsburgh with six passengers, copilot and stewardess aboard. Pilot Russell Wright had lifted his 10-passenger Boeing 2470 no more than 10 feet off the ground when his starboard motor quit cold. He was past the point where he could plump down on the airport; he had to go on. Quickly he feathered the prop on the dead engine, thus killed its racking rotation, ruinous drag. Co-pilot William Riley snapped up the landing gear. Ahead was the valley...
...Much and start throwing chairs at people. Then they sign off with a slow blues, and it's intermission. You walk across the street to Julius's and ear the best roast beer sandwich in the world while Eddie Condon tells you how he's going to quit the music business. He's been saying that for fifteen years...
...Riviera castle near Cannes, sultry, Cinevamp Pola Negri, 41, who quit German films in 1938 and denied that Adolf Hitler was her friend, complained that the straitened fare of Vichy's France had cost her 18 lb. Tenor Enrico Caruso's American-born widow, Mrs. Dorothy Benjamin Caruso Ingram Holder, who lives near by, reported that since the armistice she had lost 22 lb. - Ordered to report April 16 (a month earlier than expected) for his year's military service was bespectacled, Sabbath-observing, unmarried William McChesney Martin Jr., 34, $48,000-a-year president...
...damage, and not a single man having lost so much as a hand-the British indulged in glorious postmortems. When the Italians said they were positive that they had sunk a British cruiser, British who had been in the battle suddenly remembered a curious thing: after they had quit the action, they had heard gunfire -could it be that the Italians had sunk one of their...