Word: dead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...southern Europe, the Communists needed only to discredit, jail or kill a few men to silence all opposition. Thus, in Yugoslavia, the Communist dictatorship silenced opposition by first discrediting, then executing General Draja Mihailovich. In Hungary, they jailed the Secretary General of the majority Smallholders Party, Bela Kovacs (reported dead last week), and forced Prime Minister Ferenc Nagy into exile. In Rumania, they jailed Juliu Maniu, 74-year-old leader of the liberal Peasant Party. In Poland, Peasant Party Leader Stanislaw Mikolajczyk is expected to be in jail by Christmas (TIME, Sept. 22). In Albania, they fabricated an Anglo-American...
...explained that any resemblances were coincidental: "It's only because living people frequently run to type.") But few could fail to be charmed by the portrait of the artist as a messy little fat boy, standing smack in the center of his own creation. Young Rivera kept a dead snake and a bullfrog in his pockets, carried an eagle-headed umbrella and held hands with a grownup skeleton lady, dressed to kill. Just before he signed the mural, the aging artist's finishing touch was to broaden the boy's grin...
...Please, Mr. Jolson, don't sign with anybody else for ten minutes. Just give us ten minutes, please.' Sign, ha, ha! I didn't want to sign with nobody, so I tell-'em $7,500 a week. They say yes and I almost drop dead...
...Case of the Murdered Bride, all the other news of the day was shoved back among the goiter-cure ads. The story was a natural: the victim had worked as a dice girl in a gin mill and she had been married just two days. When she was found dead in a ditch, the hunt for her husband was on. Connelly and Drury found him. While the Herald-American pulled out all the stops (HERO REPORTERS REVEAL HUSBAND'S OWN STORY), they kept him out of sight, gave him up to the police only after they had found...
Much of their work consists of regular deck-scrubbing, water-testing, leaf-skimming, and extracting dead rats and bobby pins from pools. In Beverly Hills, whose 700-odd pools occupy most of their time, the job is far from routine. After police had searched two days for Actor Joseph Cotten's car, reported stolen, Cotten found it and called Ilsley's men to retrieve it, from his pool. Another time, they fished a live deer out of Joan Fontaine's pool. Jack Benny, who had an octopus molded into the bottom of his tank for laughs, called...