Word: headstrong
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...Headstrong. In Painesville, Ohio, William Marut, after wondering for weeks what had hit his head New Year's Eve, finally got around to showing the bump to a doctor, who found a .22 slug embedded in his scalp...
...dramatic" interludes are not-so-gentle burlesques of just such shows as King's Row. Playing all the roles themselves, they have produced Mr. Trace, Keener Than Most Persons (The Leaky Refrigerator in the Efficiency Apartment Murder Clue), Jack Headstrong, the All-American American (now working on an interplanetary motorcycle), and Mary Backstage, Noble Wife ("There's usually an amnesia case or a brain operation going on"). Another character, played by Ray: Mary McGoon, a composite of all women commentators and home helpers (her cure for a cold: goosefat in an Argyle sock, hung around the neck...
Atomic Bombing. Britons, who have voiced concern lest a headstrong U.S. use its air bases in England for atomic bomb flights against Russia, were pleased by a Truman pledge: the U.S. will not use the bases for A-bombings without consultation and approval by the British...
...young Stuart Baron, who has been managing the mills, maneuvers the elder clansmen into agreeing to sell to the highest bidder, then makes the highest bid himself. The elders agree to the coup, provided he will take two cousins into the business as balance wheels. The three of them-headstrong Stuart, flamboyant Raoul, a promoter and organizer, and cautious David, a slick man with figures-proceed to gobble small powder companies by the dozens and build Baron into a giant U.S. powder trust...
...incident no less dramatic actually happened in Wilmington in 1902. In that instance it was headstrong young Alfred Iréneé du Pont who proposed to buy the company, and Cousins Thomas Coleman, the promoter, and Pierre Samuel, the financial brain-still, at 80, a member of Du Pont's finance committee-who joined him to build the business and to expand it into the fields of peace. Shortly before World War I, E. I. du Pont de Nemours, like Baron, was found in violation of the antitrust laws and split into three separate companies. The parallels...