Word: took
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Outraged by comics that piously headline their pages "Obey the Law" while dripping with murder by meat cleavers, quicklime, axes and buzz saws, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors took drastic action. It passed an ordinance providing a $500 fine or a six-month jail term for selling crime comics to children under 18. The law will cover only the rural areas of the county, but the legislature will be asked to make the ban statewide...
...articles on bad housing, "The Alcoholic and His Women," and "Why Do Women Cry." By male tastes (which do not matter to the Journal), its "problem" fiction is below the standard of its articles -but it is not for want of hunting for new authors or problems. The Journal took twelve first stories (at a minimum of $750) by budding writers. Its fiction, food and architecture displays are decorated with wide-open, four-color layouts that are among the best in the business...
...returned to the Yankees in 1946, there was no more of the old booing. After his long layoff, he had one poor season, then struck his stride last year and edged out Ted Williams for the American League's "Most Valuable Player" award (his third). Gruffed Williams: "It took the big guy to beat me, didn...
Pamela's parents, whose marital differences have fascinated Chicago newspaper readers almost as much as Pamela's peril, took the operation harder than the patient did. The sight of a routine blood transfusion blacked out father Fred Lamphere. Said he: "I saw them putting needles and blood into her, and I keeled right over in a faint...
When she graduated, Dr. Kent moved west. In 1919 she went to work in a 25-bed hospital in Harrisburg, Ore., eventually took charge of it. Later, as a country