Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...satanic orgies, sacrificing one after another of the child singers on the altar while begging the four principal figures of demonology-Satan, Beelzebub. Belial and Moloch-to help them turn base metal into gold. In 1440 Gilles was arrested and tried for murder. Before he was hanged at the age of 36, he confessed that he had presided over the murders of 140 children...
...steaming, jampacked courtroom in Maebashi, 60 miles northwest of Tokyo, U.S. Army Specialist Third Class William S. Girard went on trial for manslaughter. In court last week, eying him coldly, was the teen-age daughter of the 46-year-old Japanese woman whom Girard shot in the back on a firing range seven months ago. Until the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Japan had the right to try him (TIME, July 22), the Girard case was headline material on both sides of the Pacific and the focal point, in the U.S., of more jingoistic and uninformed editorial comment than perhaps...
...Little Rock's University of Arkansas hospital made medical history by giving natural birth, two months prematurely, to a 2½lb. boy. Prognosis of the hospital's obstetrics-gynecology chief. Dr. Willis E. Brown: a reasonable chance of survival for the baby. The mother's age: nine years. Youngest birth on record anywhere: a boy born to a five-year-old in Peru...
Britain's weekly Punch, then 112 years old, was acting its age when ex-Newsman (Daily Telegraph) Malcolm Muggeridge became the first outsider to take over the editor's chair in 1953. Muggeridge swept out the stale sweets of fuddy-duddy whimsy, reverted to an older Punch tradition by installing tartly satiric views on topical issues (and late deadlines to keep right up with them), brought in name contributors and able critics, all but abandoned the moss-grown cover for bright and varied modern ones. He even succeeded frequently in making Punch what Englishmen never expected...
...Stumbling. Stallknecht is no Van Gogh. A triangulation of her merits would include not only such lofty points of reference but also the magazine illustrations of Norman Rockwell. Yet undeniably, in an age when thousands of young artists are stumbling about in search of a style they can call their own, Stallknecht has found hers. And she has done it without stumbling or even seeming to breathe hard. She studied illustration as a girl, before the beginning of the century, paused to raise a family and to farm at Chatham on Cape Cod, and then, past 50, felt compelled...