Word: nathan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When Nathan Louis Gordon, 73, died of heart disease during one of Los Angeles' bouts with low-descending smog, Dr. Peter Veger stated on the certificate that the smog was "a significant condition contributing to death." (The connection: difficulty in breathing may overstrain a weakened heart.) Snapped County Coroner Theodore J. Curphey: "Los Angeles smog is not a disease. We would be opening the gates to litigation against the Board of Supervisors if we accepted such a certificate...
VOICE: "Hard sell, soft sell, what shall it be? Hello, friend, this is Nathan Marsh Pusey, President of Harvard, with a reminder that American colleges will face difficult times in the years ahead. Help the college of your choice by contributing your dollars. American education and Harvard thanks...
...High Noon (1952), a lawman alone against four avenging gunslingers. The Defiant Ones, in terms of its plot, is equally spare: two men escape from a Southern chain gang and are hunted down by a sheriff and his posse. But from a stark, grimly witty script by Movie Newcomers Nathan E. Douglas and Harold Jacob Smith, Director Kramer makes a story of human understanding slowly carved out of two men's common violence, loneliness and desperation...
...this spring in a 100-mile radius to find rooms. Many visitors were up early in the morning to walk miles around Manhattan, pushing perambulators and politely peddling their quotas of the Watchtower and Awake! before hurrying off to the assembly grounds. "This is the grandest of news," said Nathan Homer Knorr, head of the Witnesses. "We are living at the end of this worry-filled, problem-racked, loveless old world. We want the new. We are eager to leave...
Cooler-Eyed Scrutiny. Next afternoon, while Dulles, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Nathan Twining and other top officials were meeting with the President in an overall review of the Middle East situation, Press Secretary James Hagerty hurried into Ike's office with the news, just off the White House Teletype machines, that Khrushchev had accepted the idea of a summit-level Security Council meeting. India's Prime Minister Nehru should take part, said Khrushchev, and so should "the Arab countries concerned." As the place and time, Khrushchev suggested New York City five days thence. "The threat to world...