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Died. Samuel Spewack, 72, co-author with his wife Bella of dozens of stage and screen comedies since the 1920s; in Manhattan. The two met as young newspaper reporters in New York. "Sam really fell in love with my writing," Bella later quipped. Masters of the formula farce, the Spewacks conquered Broadway with such hits as Boy Meets Girl (1935) and My Three Angels (1953). They also wrote the text for Cole Porter's classic musical, Kiss Me, Kate...
...born combat leader. According to legend, he went into battle with a copy of Caesar's Gallic Wars tucked in his duffel bag. Volunteering as a private in World War I, Puller was commissioned at 20; he first saw action battling bandits in Haiti and Nicaragua in the 1920s and '30s, when he earned the first two of his five Navy Crosses. In World War II he saved Guadalcanal's Henderson Field as commander of the famed 1st Battalion of the Seventh Marines, became a brigadier after spearheading the Inchon landing during the Korean conflict. Even after...
...stroke; in Baltimore. His books, which include such well-known works as From the Stone Age to Christianity and The Archaeology of Palestine, are considered primers for laymen and serious students alike. But Albright, professor emeritus at Johns Hopkins, was perhaps best known for his field work during the 1920s and '30s when he perfected the use of potsherds as dating yardsticks...
...because of his encyclopedic knowledge, Bernal infuriated them with one of his favorite theories: "In capitalist countries, the direction of science is in the hands of those who hate peace." Nonetheless, they recognized the greatness of Bernal's own contributions to science, including experiments with crystals in the 1920s and '30s that helped lay the groundwork for molecular biology. When Sir John Anderson, Home Secretary at the outbreak of World War II, was criticized for hiring an outspoken Communist to work as an explosives expert, he replied that he would employ Bernal "even...
...from the occasional luxury, was the old double standard, the neat if uncharitable belief that some women were just bad, and no real harm in that. But high-minded ministers and pious women soon assaulted this view with the fierce preachment that everyone must be good. By the early 1920s, after two generations of struggle, the reformers had won the official prohibition of commercial sex (and liquor as well...