Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Maurier had to defend herself against the same charge by a U.S. writer. In a Manhattan court, the son of the late Edwina Levin MacDonald (who died after she brought suit) charged that Rebecca was a steal from 1) his mother's novel, Blind Windows, 2) her short story, I Planned to Murder My Husband...
...weekly column in the Times, Managing Editor Edwin L. James answered Vishinsky's question, improving the occasion by reading him a short lesson on the difference between the Russian and the U.S. press. Wrote James: "There was no one who would order the Times not to print [the first Vishinsky attack] and since it was a formal speech by the representative of a great power, this newspaper printed it. . . . [Vishinsky] has repeated it over and over. There was no one to order his speech printed when there was no news in it and so it was not printed again...
Besides some 25 plays, he has written verse, some short stories, and three novels and a dozen scripts for Hollywood, though his experiences there have been "unhappy, all of them unhappy...
...scholastically above the general student average at Ann Arbor. Crisler's system is built around nine basic delayed hits and the same number of "quick hits." But all 18 can be run from seven different formations: a single-wing (balanced), a single-wing (unbalanced), the five-one, the short punt, the "T," man-in-motion, and something he calls the "300." These, plus nine basic passing plays and some "Specials," bring the total to over 170. No iron man in the days of wooden stands ever had so much to learn...
...York City's LaGuardia Airport is the world's busiest airline terminal and sometimes one of the world's most dangerous. Its runways are short and crowded. When the weather is bad, as many as 25 planes "stack-up" within the airport's control area, milling about under radio guidance, and waiting their turn to land...