Word: attack
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Died. Walter Huston, whose acting of homespun character roles made him a longtime stage & screen favorite; of a heart attack, a day after celebrating his 66th birthday; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Canadian-born Actor Huston played his first Broadway bit (In Convict Stripes) in 1905, but spent 15 years in vaudeville before stage fame came to him (Eugene O'Neill's 1924 Desire Under the Elms, the 1938 Maxwell Anderson-Kurt Weill musicomedy hit, Knickerbocker Holiday). Hollywood successes (Dodsworth, All That Money Can Buy, Mission to Moscow) boosted him into the top pay brackets (recently...
...Washington's Crystal Mountain (TIME, Oct. 10), he was no Eastern greenhorn in search of a thrill, but a mountain-climbing veteran who could trace his experience all the way back to his Yakima, Wash, boyhood. "Peanuts" Douglas took to climbing the sagebrush-covered foothills after a childhood attack of infantile paralysis left him a puny, spindly-legged weakling. In a few years the boy whose physique had barred him from strenuous sports was spending long weeks wandering over the sheer Cascades, sometimes toting a pack 40 miles in a single day. He had found his legs...
...game that was slow because of the mud and cold weather, the Crimson ruggers, according to Captain Joe Eaton, showed "basic improvement" over their play in Bermuda. Seven graduate students who could not make the Bermuda trip bolstered the Harvard attack...
Probable varsity lineup: Attack: Plissner, Yost, and Hudner; Defense: Coburn, Spence, and Byrne; Midfields: Post, Davidson (Capt.), and Birdsall; Davis, Graham, and Waring, Thayer, Bender, and Lynch; Goal: Clarke...
...sergeant's home. The sergeant strains to find some sense in the war's contradictory orders, its faked broadcasts, its leaflets and rumors. Eventually he crosses the enemy lines to the city of his birth and tries to start life ever again as a workman. A rumored germ-warfare attack causes the panicky evacuation of the city, and the sergeant returns to his own army and a deserter's prison camp...