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Word: hadly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Negative Report. In St. Louis, a burglar broke into Mahon Motors Inc. for the sixth time, carted off the automatic camera police had installed to trap him.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 21, 1959 | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

Silver Lining. In Stockholm, after removing 39 teaspoons and two lead pencils from a patient's stomach, Dr. Arne Bergkvist learned that the patient planned to set a record of 50 stomach operations, had already undergone 32.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 21, 1959 | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

Clean Sweep. In Milwaukee, when the Milwaukee county board discovered that 15 volumes of its records were missing, Courthouse Janitor Harry Stys sheepishly returned them, explained that he had borrowed them to check the voting record of his opponent in the election race for, county board supervisor.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 21, 1959 | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

The Golden Fish (J.-Y. Cousteau; Columbia). Once upon a time there was a goldfish. It lived in a tank in a carnival booth and waited to be won by the holder of the lucky number. One day the goldfish saw a small boy looking into the tank. The boy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

The Episcopal Bishop of the California diocese, with full rubric and laying on of hands, had conferred on a Methodist minister-not Episcopal orders but episcopal orders. As a result, the Rev. George Hedley is still a Methodist, but he wears his Methodism with a difference. Frail-looking but sinewy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Episcopal Methodist | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

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