Word: funerall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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A $100 Wreath. In the thunderous heyday of Prohibition gangsterism, Roger the Terrible was the jaunty cockalorum of northwest Cook County. After leasing a few trucks to rumrunners, he abandoned a $50,000-a-year automobile business for bootlegging-and thereupon set in motion a relentless procession of events that...
Joan of Arc. Early in their occupation, the Chinese Reds wiped out Sinkiang's original Moslem leaders. Looking for someone else to lead them, the restive Moslems turned to one Abraim Aysaev, an Uighur regional official who had been thinking dangerous thoughts since returning from a Communist-sponsored junket...
Pierre Cardinal Gerlier, primate of the Lyon diocese, who was responsible for bringing the dying Herriot back into the church, issued a statement rejecting with indignation "the gratuitous and odious allegations . . . which dare to assert that I had taken advantage of the weakness of a diminished man." Herriot not only...
Overscheduled. In London, John W. Glenister, 45, was arrested for being drunk while in charge of a motor vehicle, but only after going to his father's funeral, visiting his wife in a hospital, and attending his son's wedding reception.
Senile Ghost. Alfred's son Fritz was a pudgy, gourmandizing sybarite, who fattened Kruppdom by gobbling up coal and iron mines and the shipyards at Kiel. But his chief bequest was "the Capri scandal." There, in a Tiberian grotto, guarded by boys garbed as Franciscan friars, he staged Black...