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Betty Smith, whose best-selling A Tree Grows in Brooklyn became a best-selling Hollywood movie, was off to the Alps to write a scenario for Swiss producer Lozar Wechsler. She had "no idea" what the story would be about, said she, but "I accepted Mr. Wechsler's offer...
Half a dozen other vessels were sunk, or beached to avert sinking; a third capital ship, the durable Jap Nagato, wallowed and sank. Nobody yet knew how many submarines were crushed. For a single bomb it was a dreadful toll.
In 1887 came that dreadful day when the ether was done to death. Two U.S. physicists, Albert A. Michelson and E. W. Morley, measured the speed of light simultaneously in two directions at right angles to one another. The speeds were expected to differ slightly because of "ether drift" past...
Dr. Miner C. Hill, chairman of the Committee on Mothers' Milk, last week credited his wet nurses with a large part of the city's drop in infantile mortality, from 71.1 to 30.4 per 1,000 births during the last 24 years. Today's growing shortage he...
Bevin lost his calm tone when he tried to bring home the dreadful day-to-day consequences of the ideological conflict: "[It] is holding up the distribution of food in Europe. Let us fight that out, on some basis, but not on the bellies of the people!"