Word: redness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gehrig, rushed into the pandemonium in the Yankee dressing room and planted a kiss on DiMaggio's forehead. "Just had to do it," Dugan explained, "I've never seen anybody who could surpass this guy." On the third day, Joe whomped homer No. 4 to confound the Red Sox and sweep the series. After the sportwriters ran out of superlatives, all the great DiMaggio could do was grin...
...device is primarily a photoelectric eye which is attached to the rim of the patient's ear; it reacts to the color of the blood in the ear: bright red when there is enough oxygen, darker as the oxygen diminishes. A year ago Charles F. ("Boss Ket") Kettering,* former head of the General Motors Research Laboratories, joined the team to iron out some technical bugs...
...almost two weeks, Chicago had been breaking out in a rash of cryptic signs: "KOVD." The letters were stenciled in red on Loop sidewalks. They flowered 10,000 feet overhead in sky writing and billboards showed them painted on a giant boxing glove. The city's Health Department was getting a message to Chicagoans: KNOCK OUT VENEREAL DISEASE...
Divorced. By Joanne Dru, 26, brunette cinemactress (Red River): Crooner Dick Haymes, 32; after seven years of marriage, three children; in Reno. Joanne announced that "it's probably in the cards" that 1) she will marry Actor John Ireland, and 2) Haymes will marry Nora Eddington Flynn as soon as Nora gets her divorce this month from Cinemactor Errol Flynn...
...Kentucky, worked in the coal mines until he had saved enough money to buy 200 run-down acres of what had once been the fine land of his ancestors. But before he could begin building the place up, he felt bound to scrap his ambition. King Devil, a big red fox which haunted the countryside, had run his favorite hound to death. For years Nunn devoted himself to hunting King Devil while his children grew more bitter, his wife Milly more resigned. When impoverished Nunn Ballew sold some of his livestock and paid $70 for two pedigreed hounds, to raise...