Word: reed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Grassi was at getting money, he was even better at losing it. Last month, in one three-day spree in Monte Carlo, he dropped $490,000. A few days later, at Le Touquet, he lost heavily again, this time ironically playing beside an American businessman on vacation-Ralph Thomas Reed, president of American Express Co. Reed was not the only one who wondered at the recklessness of the mysteriously affluent Italian. A Parisian gossip columnist wrote an item about "a young Italian, Mr. Grassi, who never bets less than one million francs at a time at roulette," and makes...
...more than a year before his quiet coup, Sarit was Thailand's absentee strongman, with an obedient Premier in office and a contented young King Phumiphon staying regally above politics. But Sarit was spending so much time in Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington, D.C. because of his liver-the result of a lifetime of high living-that some of the country's tolerated bad habits had become intolerable. To break up the entrenched corruption and to ward off the increasing appeal of Communism, Sarit decided to take on the premiership in person. He liked to think...
...Patient and precise, slight (5 ft. 8 in., 150 Ibs.) Bernard ("Tut") Bartzen, 31, from Dallas, retrieved shot after shot at Chicago's River Forest Tennis Club, finally put away San Jose State's Whitney Reed, 26, by the score of 6-0, 8-6, 7-5, to keep his U.S. clay-court championship, and to prove again that he is without peer on clay, where the balls bounce high and true, although he may be an also-ran on grass, where the shots skid low and hard...
...near the end of the last great creative burst of its author, Ugo Betti. It is a play that states the problem of modern nihilism with uncompromising starkness and attempts to press beyond in the reaffirmation of human responsibility. Even a cursory reading of Betti's play in Henry Reed's excellent English translation makes it clear why Betti is being hailed on the continent as an even greater dramatist than Pirandello...
Bone Welder Mandarino was formerly a bone crusher. He worked his way through medical school (Hahnemann Medical College, '45) by playing professional football (guard) for the Philadelphia Eagles, currently is team physician for the Eagles. With Dr. Joseph E. Salvatore of Walter Reed Army Medical Center, he has worked on the bone glue for four years, has found that patients with compound fractures can return to work four to ten months sooner than with plaster casts. It helps particularly with older people whose bones are slow to heal. While the yellowish bone glue has produced no toxic or foreign...