Word: stricken
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...read a Variety ad: Sid Grauman was casting in Hollywood. A wire went out to Grauman: THE WORLD'S GREATEST HARMONICA PLAYER IS AT THE CHICAGO THEATER. The Wire Was signed "Louie Lipstone," the name of the head man at the Chicago Theater. Next morning, mildly conscience-stricken, Adler went around to explain. He walked in on a telephone conversation. "But I didn't send you a wire!" Lipstone was shouting. Then he saw the harmonica player. He covered the mouthpiece and asked: "Did you, you little bastard?" Adler nodded. Lipstone turned to the phone. "Yeah, that...
...April 21--The Senate brushed aside a no-hurry rule today and whisked through by a 93-0 vote its confirmation of Christian A. Herter as secretary of state. This cleared the way for the suave, scholarly, 64-year-old Herter to take over with full authority from cancer-stricken John Foster Dulles...
...year-old New Englander strongly implied he would do far less traveling than the cancer-stricken John Foster Dulles...
...College Education. Each day grief-stricken Little Doll placed fresh flowers on Big Pasquale's grave. But she had not come from a family called "Little Streaks of Lightning" (because they could fire a pistol so fast) for nothing. That day in the marketplace. Little Doll took her revenge on Tony Esposito with Big Pasquale's own big pistol. Awaiting trial in jail, she bore Big Pasquale's baby and cheerfully wrote her parents: "Think of me as a girl away at college. Sometimes I laugh and I sing...
...crew to help fight Valchem's fire, facilitating the transfer of Valchem's 17 injured seamen to his own ship's hospital. For more than two hours Siwik held his position to keep the tanker from capsizing, drew away only after making certain that the stricken Valchem could stay afloat...