Word: hanging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...comic on a dais figures he's got to do four or five minutes or the audience will think he's a bum." Milton Berle, TV's funnyman emeritus, quipped for 90 seconds longer than his allotted seven minutes. But like the man condemned to hang, Berle was as sassy as he liked, for there was nothing TV could threaten him with-the onetime Mr. Television has not had a steady job on TV since 1956. And without question, his nine minutes were the show's best...
Double Indemnity. In Usen, Germany, when Heinrich Bormann tried to hang himself from a branch overhanging a creek, the branch broke and he was drowned...
...Malenkov, Molotov and Kaganovich to overthrow him, and then turned on the marshal. In this imposing progress down murderer's row, Bulganin was Khrushchev's ninth major victim. Moscow diplomats guessed that Bulganin, who is said to have taken increasingly to the bottle of late, might hang on to his Presidium seat for a while as a Deputy Premier...
Birdhouse Builder Stone was no go-getting boy. A slow, sweet talker, he loved to hang around all day at the soda fountain. After his mother's death, in 1920 he ambled onto the University of Arkansas, where he was immensely popular and immensely relaxed. "I guess all the boys were lazy," recalls a college chum, "but Ed was more than ordinary lazy." Arkansas' U.S. Senator James William Fulbright, then a lowerclassman and later president of the university, gives Ed full marks as a storyteller and cartoonist. Beyond that, Stone seemed content to remain a lady...
...masterpiece has been bought for more than $60,000 by an American Hispanophile who intends to give it to the Spanish government. Last week the painting was packed up in Manhattan's Knoedler Galleries for shipment to the Brussels World's Fair. There it will hang alone in a special Spanish-pavilion annex. The Franco regime will celebrate the fair's inauguration by issuing a commemorative postage stamp bearing a reproduction of the Dali work. Later, said Catalan-born Artist Dali, the painting will go to Spain's "majestic temple of pure, classic lines, worthy...