Word: hammerism
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...Hammer for the Bride. During one of Ray's subsequent romances-an elopement with an Albany widow named Mrs. Janet Fay-Martha intervened even more decisively. Ray promised to marry Janet, drove her to a New York apartment, and got her to turn over checks worth $6,000. But Martha quarreled with Janet, slugged the bride-to-be in the head with a hammer, and ordered Ray to strangle her with a scarf...
Meanwhile the Hungarian Communists continued what they called their "educational enlightenment" of the public, which tried to hammer home the point that Mindszenty was not only a traitor but a coward. There were some Hungarians who fell for the line. Others, who even refused to listen to the radio broadcasts of the trial, believed in Mindszenty more strongly than ever. Said a Catholic worker: "He is my priest. The government could not have strong enough reason to bring him into court." Said a middle-aged woman: "The Primate's greatest mistake was his wrong timing in speculating...
...Cleveland courtroom last week, Cleveland Press Reporter Leonard Hammer meekly answered a charge of contempt of court. Beside him stood Press Editor Louis Seltzer and two other staffers. They had faked a divorce (TIME, Feb. 14) to dramatize the slipshod handling of such cases in Cuyahoga County. Though Editor Seltzer argued that "What we did with good intent . . . could be done by others with bad intent," the four Pressmen were found guilty, fined a total of $1,000. Sympathetic readers offered Editor Seltzer more than $1,400, and sent him six bouquets; he kept the flowers but declined the money...
Ralph Budd had come to Aurora, the "Q's" birthplace, to celebrate the road's first 100 years. He donned a claw hammer coat and stovepipe hat, glued on a black mustache, and helped re-enact the granting of the Q's 1849 charter for its first twelve miles of track. But Budd, whose 10,600-mile railroad system is now the U.S.'s fourth longest,* had his eye, as usual, on the future...
Felton, a Business School student who commutes to New York for his meets, went to London with the Olympic team last summer. He placed fourth in the hammer throw at that time...