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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Altman thought that 99% of the union's membership were "good Americans" and antiCommunists. But outside the court building some 500 leftist pickets paraded the streets, screaming: "How do you spell Altman?-R...
Colonel Robert R. ("Bertie") McCormick was off on another global tour in his newest plane, a surplus Flying Fortress with machine guns removed. Objective this time: darkest Europe. Before leaving, he reassured all potentially anxious friends: "One could make a million flights before three of the four engines would fail simultaneously ... If all [five] of the crew should become incapacitated, I can hold the plane on an even keel and hit Europe somewhere...
...Resistentialism is a philosophy of tragic grandeur. It is difficult to give an account of it in textbook English after hearing Ventre's witty aphorisms, but I will try. Resistentialism derives its name from its central thesis that Things (res) resist (résister) men . . . Pre-atomic philosophies . . . were concerned merely with what men think about Things. Now, Resistentialism is the philosophy of what Things think about...
Myanesin, a new synthetic drug developed from glycerin, relaxes muscles of patients during operations. Since last September the drug's developer, Dr. Frank M. Berger, has been working with Dr. R. Plato Schwartz to find new uses for the drug. If it relaxes muscles during operations, the doctors reasoned, would it also work on muscles tied up by disease...
Born. To Frederick R. ("Ted") Schroeder Jr., 26, high-strung onetime U.S. tennis singles champ (1942), whose record-breaking 71-game match against Australia's Dinny Pails clinched the Davis Cup for the U.S. last year, and Anne de Windt Schroeder, 24: their second child, second son; in Glendale, Calif. Name: Richard Frederick. Weight...