Word: affair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Naples asylum, Pia stood trial for murder in Como. She readily confessed the killing in a 104-page deposition burning with passion. But, she said, "I didn't want to kill him, only to intimidate him." Why? Because the brute Sacchi had not only broken off their affair; he had done it via a form letter-sent at the same time to five other mistresses...
Naturalist Leonard Dubkin, who once wrote a nature column for the Chicago Tribune, is probably the only man who ever lost his heart to an albino bat. This esoteric affair, which took place in Chicago, is described in Dubkin's new book, The White Lady (Putnam...
...University, however, stuck to its decision to reduce housing and the AVC formed a committee to protest the action. But complaints got them nowhere, and the affair ended with a "desperate need for low cost housing...
Governor Dever has disclaimed any participation in the affair; he has pointed out that the safety commissioner's warning was "just advice" and in no way constituted banning or suppression. Dever may be entirely correct and the commissioner's action may have been a public service; yet the libel laws themselves prevent such "advice" by either the commissioner or the attorney general to be dismissed as suggestions which would have no bearing on any further jurisprudence...
...première of a new ballet last week, Lincoln Kirstein, general director of the New York City Ballet, came out of the wings and made a little hands-across-the-sea speech. Picnic at Tintagel, he explained, is something very special. It is not only an all-English affair, with choreography by Frederick Ashton of Sadler's Wells, scenery and costumes by Cecil Beaton and music by Sir Arnold Bax. It might even be called "the first fruits of the new Elizabethan...