Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Branch Rickey of the Brooklyn Dodgers finally yielded his mother-in-law's missing darning needle. A doctor found it by X ray, managed to cut it out of where it had disappeared to when Rickey...
...junction point for mule trains then, had "only two simple streets and a dozen houses." Fanstone was the first to practice surgery in the region; until then, appendicitis was known as "knotted bowels" and you "either got well or died by yourself." He brought in the first X-ray machine, the first elevator; his six-story hospital was the first skyscraper...
Information Please (Fri. 9:30 p.m., Mutual). Guest: Ray Milland...
...ray vision, impenetrable skin and muscle, Superman has been no great shakes in a courtroom. After a falling out with their publishers a year ago, Siegel & Shuster filed a super-suit for $5,000,000. Among other things they demanded the rights to their creation. (Like most comic-strippers they had signed away all rights.) As the suit dragged on, the publishers lured other artists to draw Superman, although the strip still carried Siegel's & Shuster's names. Last week, in Manhattan, Newspaper Broker Albert Zugsmith arranged a settlement: Siegel & Shuster got $100,000, and National Comics Publications...
...plane?) hurtles through the air. He races the locomotive to the broken rail. Suddenly the screen goes black. Will Superman (who looks slightly flabby in the flesh) reach the broken-rail in time to prevent the wreck? Will he weld the rail with the glare of his X-ray eyes? Or will he straight-arm the train to a stop? Find out next Saturday in the next thrilling chapter of Superman...