Word: trapped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME, Dec. 15). Last week, on behalf of five children still under medical care for severe burns. Chicago Lawyer Burton Joseph filed in Cook County circuit court a $1,750,000 damage suit against 1) the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago, for letting the school become a "dangerous fire trap," and 2) the City of Chicago, for failing to enforce its own fire ordinances for safety standards in schools...
...Rabbit Trap. A gentle little tract for the times that describes how a yes-man learned...
...Almost too familiar by now, the theme often bogs down in sentiment or sociology. One of the few writers who easily rise above these dangers is South African Novelist Dan Jacobson, and he proves it once again in his first volume of short stories. As in his novels (The Trap, A Dance in the Sun), Jacobson's writing is skilled, hard and sun spare. He uses the tensions between Negroes and whites as he would if they were the tensions of love or war, to reveal stress points of fear, weakness or guilt in his characters...
...Rabbit Trap was apparently intended as a sleeper, but seems likely to wind up as what the exhibitors call a caboose-the back end of a double bill. In a way, it's a pity. As a social prescription, the story proposes a too simple cure for conformism, but it provides, as a sort of fable for the times, a useful moral: not all rabbits have long ears...
Died. Dr. Morton Charles Kahn, 63, adventurous bacteriologist who tramped through the jungles of South America on numerous expeditions to study tropical diseases, developed (1948) a trap that could destroy 1,500 malaria-bearing mosquitoes a day (a recording of the hum of the female mosquito lures the males from miles around to an electrified screen that kills them on contact); of a heart attack; in Manhattan...