Word: r
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Water Landing. The C-54's pilot, war-toughened, black-haired Lieut. Colonel William R. Calhoun Jr. of Birmingham, Ala., ditched the plane beautifully. But the C-54 hit the rough Pacific sea with a bone-jarring crash. Its lights went out. Debris flew through the cabin. The tail snapped off and so did the left wing...
...Hamp Kendall, 71, of Caldwell County, N.C., who was mistakenly convicted of murder 42 years ago and served more than nine years before the mistake was discovered, wrote to Governor R. Gregg Cherry to complain of the legend on his "victim's" tombstone, which read: "Lawrence Nelson, robbed and murdered by Hamp Kendall." Said Kendall: "No damned man that is innocent would stand under this slanderous tombstone scandal right where he is trying to make an honest living." The Governor was sympathetic, but said he was powerless...
...Physics; James L. Gamble '10, professor of Pediatrics; Harry L. Hansen '37, associate professor of Business Administration; John N. Hobstter, assistant professor of Engineering Science; Roland B. Holt, assistant professor of Physics; Edwin C. Kemble '17, professor of Physics; Eugene M. Landis, George Higgins Professor of Physiology; Harry R. Mimno '28, Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics; J. Howard Mueller, Charles Wilder Professor of Bacteriology and Immunology; John L. Ondey, associate professor of Physical Chemistry; Robert V. Pound, assistant professor of Physics; Leslie Silverman, assistant professor of Industrial Hygiene...
When he exposed Lobbyist John P Monroe's ill-famed "red house on R Street," where high officials were wined and duped, Monroe sued for $1,000,000. So Pearson got a young mutual friend to get better acquainted with Monroe. "I don't put servants in people's houses," explains Pearson, "or plant people around town. But in this case I was fighting for a million bucks." The young man dug up enough dirt to put Monroe in jail-and the libel suit was dismissed...
...voted to assess each of its 140,000 members $25, the first such levy in the organization's 100 years. The $3,500,000 would be spent on a campaign of "education" to tell people the advantages of the "American system" of medical care. Federal Security Administrator Oscar R. Ewing says that the "education" will be A.M.A. "lobbying" against Government health insurance...