Word: iii
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shakespeare is throwing this mud at Britain's Richard of Gloucester, alias "Richard Crookback," better known as Richard III. Generations of students have gasped with horror at the monstrous doings of Britain's basest king, notorious for the murder of his young nephews ("The Little Princes in the Tower''). Not for three centuries did historians begin to wonder whether Crookback could possibly have been quite so crooked. Now. Ohio University Historian Paul Kendall has tried once more to get at the truth...
Cheerleaders bounded and bounced in a political harlequinade, and Republican dignitaries lined up with grins wide enough for tooth inspection as the presidential Columbine III touched down at San Francisco's International Airport just ahead of the fog bank rolling over the San Bruno hills. Dwight Eisenhower, his face ruddy with returned strength and alight with expectation, stepped lightly from the big airplane, faced microphones and told why he had come a day ahead of schedule to the scene of the Republican National Convention. "I suddenly discovered this was too interesting a place to stay away from," he said...
...Richard III. Dirty work at the Tower of London as reported by the propagandist pen of William Shakespeare and chillingly played by Sir Laurence Olivier (TIME, March...
Stevenson "fire spotters" (including Adlai Stevenson III) fanned out among the other combustible delegations. Arizona started to burn; it was cooled after a perilously close call. Kansas seemed ready to go; the fire fighters won again. Even at midweek the faction-torn Maryland delegation began thinking about switching to Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington. Jim Finnegan got the word, made an emergency call. "Boys," said Finnegan, by that time on his third pack of Old Golds, "that's all right if it's the best you can do. You can come along later−just...
...Lancet touched off another major debate by charging that London Surgeon Sir Henry Thompson had caused the death of exiled Emperor Napoleon III by operating on him for a bladder stone by lithotrity (penetration into the urethra by a pair of forceps) instead of lithotomy (incision into the bladder...