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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...editorial positions, the editorial writing staff emerges periodically from the ivory tower to gather firsthand information, plant ideas, and lobby for the Star's causes. Last month, alarmed about a rising traffic death rate, the Star ran a lead editorial deploring the carnage, then sent Editorial Writer James W. Scott out for earnest conferences with Police Chief Bernard Brannon and other authorities. Result: a new 36-man traffic detail and a series of frontpage editorials backing up the police department's campaign...
...delta-winged, wasp-waisted Convair F106 interceptor, piloted by Major Joseph W. Rogers of Worthington, Ohio, took off from Edwards Air Force Base and climbed to 40,000 ft. (jets are slow at low altitude). Air conditions were ideal; the aircraft and its Pratt & Whitney J-75 engine were new but carefully chosen. In earlier tests, the engine had been revved up until its temperature reached the highest permissible level, and the fuel-input control was set at that point...
There was nothing unusual in the fact that John W. Hay, 49, was "a dental coward" and neglected his teeth so long that for two months he had to spend two evenings a week and several hours each Saturday in the chair. What was unusual was that his dentist, knowing that Hay was president of Los Angeles' American Hospital Management Corp., prodded him into doing something about it. Said the dentist: "Why don't you get us a dental hospital in Los Angeles? Then a whole job like this could be done in two hours...
...PAPERS OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, VOL. I (400 pp.)-Edited by Leonard W. Labaree-Yale University...
...proud of his craft as of his country. The co-sponsors of the Papers, Yale University and the American Philosophical Society, aided by a grant from LIFE, expect the project to run to 40 volumes appearing over the next 15 years. For the past 5½ years, Editor Leonard W. Labaree, Farnam Professor of History at Yale, and his associate, Whitfield J. Bell Jr., have combed libraries and personal collections from Leningrad to Hawaii for any letter or document written to or by Franklin. They have amassed more than 27,000 photocopies of manuscripts and pieces of manuscripts...