Word: arsenic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arsenic is replacing lace on the Valentine cards sold in local stores this year, according to Square merchants...
Television set a furious pace that it may find hard to keep up. Most of the excitement of the week was generated by dramatic shows. CBS's Best of Broadway resurrected the 1941 hit, Arsenic and Old Lace, and filled it with a star-studded cast that Broadway today would give its eyeteeth to have. As the addlepated Brooklyn sisters who gently practice mass euthanasia on lonely old men, Helen Hayes and Billie Burke were the epitome of lethal charm. John Alexander recreated his memorable role of their nephew who believes that he is Teddy Roosevelt (and leads...
Best of Broadway (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS). Helen Hayes in Arsenic and Old Lace, with Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre, Billie Burke, Orson Bean, Edward Everett Horton...
...patients, well on the road to recovery after their operations, suddenly took a turn for the worse and died. In each case, death was attributed to postoperative complications and the bodies were cremated. Nobody noticed that shortly before each death Nurse Rudloff had withdrawn a small amount of arsenic from the hospital stores...
...necessary," the patient's wife told the nurse. "My husband will be coming home very soon." But Rudloff was persistent. "One never knows," he said darkly. A day or two later, when the patient suddenly died, his widow demanded an autopsy. A lethal dose of arsenic was discovered in the corpse. Confronted, Nurse Rudloff confessed to killing all four patients, just to discredit the chief surgeon. From East Germany last week came word that Rudloff the resentful nurse had been sentenced to death by guillotine...