Word: crashed
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...only one year older than Harry Truman himself.* The son of a Presbyterian minister, Jim Duff grew up among the rigs and hard-knuckled men of western Pennsylvania's oilfields. Trained as a lawyer, he made a fortune in wildcatting, lost it in the 1929 crash. A delegate to many a political convention but never a candidate until 1946, Duff campaigned for others, ran the 1942 gubernatorial campaign for his (and Grundy's) old friend Ed Martin. Martin made him attorney general, and helped put him in the governor's chair as his successor...
...makes an especially heavy impact on the more impressionable youngsters. One young man, formerly a devoted Hitlerite, saw his dreams crash down in 1945. First he contemplated suicide, then he withdrew into complete apathy. By way of a soccer club, he got into the FDJ. Says he now: "Sometimes I'm terribly afraid I might be wrong again. I couldn't stand a second mental bankruptcy. No! The Communists must be right. Look at their successes-look at China...
Sidney B. Fay '96, professor of History, emeritus, was startled early yesterday morning by a crash of glass and thud of a fallen body in the cellar of his Brattle Street home...
...that of the locomotive that Casey drove on his last ride. After a parade and concert, aged (76) Sim Webb, who had sat on the fireman's side of the Cannonball Express cab that night, rose and told again how he had jumped to safety before the crash. Casey's widow Janie, eightyish but still perky enough to relish an occasional nip of bourbon, also had her say. She indignantly denied the song lines attributed...
...much for Umberto, 23. In the first half of the race he skidded off the road, wrapped his car around a pole, got out only superficially hurt. Other drivers had worse in store. Peter Richard Monkhouse's British Healey somersaulted into a field and he died in the crash; Alvasio Bassi was crushed to death when his car turned turtle in a sweeping skid on the slippery asphalt. Fatalities did not compare with 1938, when 23 spectators were killed when one racer skidded into a crowd (Mussolini banned the race the next year), but it was bloody enough...