Word: conqueror
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Squishy Trails. With its headquarters on 113 acres of Civil War battleground at" the District-Maryland line, Walter Reed has mushroomed since it opened in 1909 as a memorial to the famed conqueror of yellow fever. For all its latter-day interest in such matters as freeze-anesthesia and radiation sickness, the Army must still, like Reed, plod squishy jungle trails to track down diseases that beset its men in the tropics. Among Walter Reed's works-in-progress...
...downing 26 Japanese planes, for his hazards later was awarded a Congressional Medal of Honor. Added touch for Hollywood scenarists : Foss's yen to fly began when he was a farm boy of twelve, awesomely saw Charles A. Lindbergh, then touring the U.S. as the lionized conqueror of the Atlantic. Film's tentative title: Brave Eagle...
...famed Curzon family, a 2nd Viscount, 6th Baron and loth Baronet all in one, enclosed a pamphlet with his job application, detailing the glories of his ancestral home, Kedleston Hall in Derbyshire. Not counting those with hyphenated names claiming to be direct descendants of William the Conqueror ("If they don't give their background, we don't even answer them") and two who claimed a royal bar sinister, the applicants for the TV job totaled 18, all of them impressively blue-blooded. Vicki was so overwhelmed that at one point she announced: "We may end up by taking...
...Radio Pictures Inc.,* its moviemaking facilities, distribution system, and a library of some 700 films, including such popular favorites as Gunga Din, Citizen Kane, Stage Door, Little Women, Lost Patrol, The Informer. In addition, RKO has two new films not yet released: Jet Pilot and The Conqueror, both starring No. 1 box-office attraction John Wayne...
...proceeds to relate how the duke, fresh from his triumphant campaigns in Spain, hurried straight to her house one night only to find Argyll there before him. When Wellington knocked, Harriette dressed Argyll in her nightcap and dressing gown and sent him to the window to tell the conqueror to be off-as the hussy must have it-"to his neglected wife and family duties...