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...After a stab at prizefighting and working in the Packard foundry in Detroit, Cahn began his life as a musician among the founders of the American folk music movement--men like Pete Seeger and Millard Lampell. Since the late 1940's he has travelled extensively throughout the United States and to Spain and the Carribean, collecting, teaching, and performing. The Carribbean trip was on a grant from Wayne State University in Detroit, where he met his former wife, blues singer Barbara Dane...
...doctor or nurse who tries to spare a patient pain by giving an intramuscular injection as fast as possible is making a mistake. The results of a quick stab' with a hypodermic needle, says Ohio Pathologist Daniel J. Hanson, may be worse than the condition that the injection is supposed to cure...
Army hopes were further boosted at the opening of the second period, when right wing Bart Barry shot a hard 30-foot slap shot into the left-hand corner of the cage. Wood made a stab for it, but his glove only tipped the passing puck...
...danger of trickery. I do not think Carter Wilson captures the spirit of Swift in suggesting private retreat. But Wilson is entitled to his philosophical foray, after all, and in a cleverly blocked final scene he shows the Dean's actions for what they are: a stab at desperate alternative. And it stands very much to Wilson's credit that he fuses philosophy and personality in each character with such steady craft...
...duty at the time and Marciano was an old pal). McShane also had the misfortune, as chief marshal, of being assigned to bring the late spy Robert Soblen back to the U.S. from Israel; as the plane approached London, Soblen took advantage of McShane's momentary absence to stab himself (TIME, July...