Word: sundays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dirks now works two days a week to turn out The Captain, spends the rest of his time painting landscapes and portraits in oils. The Katenjammers are drawn by Joe Musial. The Captain runs in fewer than 100 newspapers.v. The Katzenjammers' 300 (including Hearst's New York Sunday Journal-American). Dirks Sr. and Jr. argue, nevertheless, that the original Kids, as portrayed in The Captain, are the more "sympathetic" of the two. Explains John: "When the Kids set off 8,000 tons of TNT under Der Captain, they only want to singe him a little. When they...
...years later, in 1950, Mother Teresa received canonical sanction for her order. Today the sisters run nine day schools, 15 Sunday schools, two commercial schools, two technical schools, and seven dispensaries, which treated 49,000 patients last year. Mother Teresa has adopted Indian citizenship, and all her sisters are Indian. Their habit is the sari -to identify them with the country and because it is the most practical dress in Calcutta's humid climate. (No sister possesses more than two saris; in teaching hygiene to the poor, they are able to point out that it is possible to dress...
Died. Henry Norris Russell, 79, first-magnitude astronomer and longtime (1911-47) professor at Princeton University, who developed theories to account for giant-and dwarf-star groups, cheered Sunday supplement writers by theorizing that there could be millions of planets with some kind of life on them, collected a field marshal's array of gold medals from U.S. and foreign astronomical societies; in Princeton...
Died. Helen Amelia Thompson ("Ma") Sunday. 88, widow of Bible-banging Evangelist Billy Sunday who besought the unsaved with him for 39 years, presided over the sawdust trail alone ("God is my business manager") after he died in 1935; of lung cancer; in Phoenix, Ariz. Ma Sunday's stern pronouncement: "The country is in a mess, and God knows about...
...Sunday. Dec. 28. 1879. the 13 central spans (the "High Girders") of the Tay Bridge broke under a wind of hurricane force and fell into the stormy estuary; with them fell a train carrying 75 men, women and children. There were no survivors. For weeks afterwards divers groped about the muddy estuary recovering pieces of railway hardware and bodies. Tay fishermen dragged the river bed for more bodies. The victims were neatly laid out in the station waiting room, and dour Dundee turned out eagerly to watch the funereal spectacle. British Novelist-Newspaperman John Prebble has told the story...