Word: short
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soon Jeanne told her friends that the shy young lawyer was mon idéal. Her friends warned her that it would not be easy to catch St. Laurent, a studious chap who spent most of his evenings with his law books. But when Louis started corresponding a short time later, everyone agreed: "C'est l'étincelle [It's the spark...
...Randolph Lee Clark Jr., director of Texas University's M.D. Anderson Hospital for Cancer Research, in Houston. He had a sound idea: most cancer patients are seen first by general practitioners who cannot cull all the journals for specialized articles; therefore they should be taught, through short, snappy, easy-to-read articles, how to spot the disease quickly...
Died. Major General Walter Campbell Short (ret.), 69, commander of the Hawaiian Department of the Army when the Japanese attacked on Dec. 7, 1941; of a heart ailment; in Dallas. Demoted and relieved of his duties within ten days after Pearl Harbor (as was his Navy counterpart, Admiral Husband E. Kimmel), Short ended a 40-year military career by retiring from the Army a few weeks later, worked through the war as a traffic engineer in the Ford Motor Co. plant in Dallas...
Quartet. Skillful British treatment of four Somerset Maugham short stories (TIME...
...spectral rape by the devil and of giving birth to a demon child, while young men (and older) were haunted by the "shapes" of comely matrons who at midnight dropped down from a beam and snuggled close. The devil worked overtime; he was described by one hysteric as "a short and black man-a Wretch no taller than an ordinary Walking Staff ... he wore a high crowned hat with straight hair; and he had one Cloven Foot." Another accuser casually referred...