Word: wing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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High over a California desert, the Air Force's famed "Flying Wing" bomber ran into trouble. An eyewitness said that it seemed to explode in the air. Then it plunged down to the sagebrush, killing its crew of five. At week's end, nobody seemed to know what had gone wrong...
...Agricola Nacional just west of Anapolis he made Dr. Fanstone the colony's chief medical officer. The growing colony meant a fresh load for the hospital, but Dr. Jim jammed in more beds, took care of all who came. Last week, as he watched workmen finish a new wing for his hospital, he knew that it would still not be big enough for the need...
Lucy Madeira Wing, who was 75 last week, is a reformed tomboy. For 52 years, as a kind of "retribution" for an early and intense dislike of anybody in skirts, she has been teaching girls. "Miss Madeira," founder and headmistress of Virginia's exclusive, expensive and excellent Madeira School, went to public school herself. She would like to see the day when private schools like .Madeira close down...
...bevy of competent classmates around him: Radio Columnist John Crosby; Dick Pinkham, new circulation manager; and August Heckscher, a new editorial writer. The new sports editor (also Yale '36) is curly-haired, gregarious Bob Cooke, who once did a sports column for the Yale Daily News, played right wing on the varsity hockey team, was an Army flyer (in B-26s) during the war. His first official act was to assign himself back to the Brooklyn Dodgers; Woodward had switched him this year to cover the New York Yankees...
Under the Tennant wing, Foges founded Adprint in 1937, and made it a refugee rendezvous. It printed playing cards and catalogues, supplied teams of experts to produce books in "packages," all ready for publishers to bring out. Its cheap ($1) Britain in Pictures series sold 4,000,000 copies, ran to 120 volumes covering everything from windmills to cricket...