Word: elevens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russian slave laborers had erred in thinking that a rewrite of the Stalin hagiography necessarily involves a revision of Stalin penology. The only inmates of the camp to benefit from the Kremlin's post-Stalin policy were seven Austrian P.W.s who (after eleven years in Soviet slave labor camps) were released a fortnight later in fulfillment of a Soviet promise to the new Austrian government. In Vienna last week one of the Austrians, telling the story of the Mirnoye revolt, gave the West a useful reminder of the unchanging reality behind the redecorated Soviet...
...Some people in all age groups like to set fires, but for different reasons, said the University of Southern California's Psychiatrist Stanley J. Geller. He concentrated on preadolescents (six to eleven), found that his 75 subjects were all boys. (The only female firebug he found was a girl of 14.) "Without fail," said Dr. Geller, "the marital relationship of the parents was unstable or really nonexistent. In 77% of the cases the real fathers were extremely hostile, aggressive men who frequently beat their children. In approximately half the children, enuresis [bedwetting] was an accompanying symptom." The Freudian explanation...
Married. Juanita Deere, 34, altar-prone Creek Indian oil heiress, famed for giving birth to a 9½lb. son by Caesarean section at the age of eleven, daughter of the late Woosey Deere, reputedly the richest Indian woman of the hard-pressed '30s; and John Jackson, 30, Negro service-station attendant; she (by her own count) for the 18th time, he for the second; in Tulsa...
Died. Edward Arnold (real name: Guenther Schneider), 66, topnotch character actor of stage (Whistling in the Dark), screen (Diamond Jim Brady, All That Money Can Buy), .radio and TV, author (Lorenzo Goes to Hollywood); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Encino, Calif. Arnold was orphaned at eleven, played his first role (Lorenzo in The Merchant of Venice) in the old East Side Settlement House. His substantial figure, resonant voice and booming laugh made him the best-known tycoon type in movies for some 25 years...
Neither Rain nor Snow. In Joliet, Ill., arrested after postal inspectors found eleven bags of parcel-post packages, two cartons and two suitcases full of undelivered letters, cards, newspapers and magazines strewn over the floor of his bedroom, ex-Postman Alvin Timm explained that he had dumped the mail because he is subject to bunions and tires easily...