Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Festival Day. April 26, 1913 was a legal holiday in Georgia-Confederate Memorial Day-and Mary Phagan, a pretty blonde girl of 13, dressed carefully for the occasion. She was wearing her best dress, her blue hat with the flowers and ribbons on it and her Sunday shoes and carrying a gay little parasol when she got on the downtown streetcar to go to the parade. On her way, she stopped off at the National Pencil Factory, where she was employed at 10? an hour, to pick up $1.20 in back pay. Early the next morning her body, ravished...
During the Christmas holiday season several years ago, Soviet Russia held up the entry visas for diplomatic couriers bringing mail pouches to the U.S. embassy in Moscow. As a result, the Christmas mail came in weeks late. The next time Soviet couriers were to be dispatched, the U.S. was equally slow about their visas. Thereafter there was no more trouble about American couriers entering Moscow...
...Kraft TV Theater offered the week's best dramatic fun by dusting off an old Italian chestnut, Alberto Casella's Death Takes a Holiday, which was first seen on Broadway in 1929. Actor Joseph Wiseman played the Grim Reaper taking a three-day fling at mortal follies, and was ably seconded by Stiano Braggiotti as the tortured duke and Lelia Barry as the girl who falls in love with Death. On NBC's Lux Video Theater, veteran Pat O'Brien had an actor's field day in The Chase...
Divorced. Gregory Peck, 39, lanky-Lincolnesque cinemactor (Roman Holiday, Man with a Million); by Finnish-born Greta Konen Peck, 42, onetime hairdresser to Actress Katharine Cornell; after twelve years of marriage, three children; in Hollywood...
...Holiday Spirit. In Rutland, Vt., Laborer Robert Woodward. 37, well fortified with alcohol, decided to pay a holiday visit to his 71-year-old, bedridden mother at East Poultney, lost control of his dump truck on a curve as he was approaching his destination, caromed off a tree and into his mother's cottage, knocked the cottage off its foundation and his mother out of bed and into the arms of son Ronald, with whom she was conversing, was hauled into court and pleaded guilty to charges of driving while drunk and without a license...