Word: ille
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Matched against Jämsä in a contest to see who could stay buried alive longer in a coffin, a Finnish fakir was dug up in hysterics after 21 hours, subsequently gave up fakiry. Jämsä stayed down for 50 hours, showed no ill effects other than a determination never to try it again...
...drive in style up and down Europe in search of fresh markets for their cars. Only two months ago, Queen Mimi and an entourage of 50 set out in six Buicks, a Cadillac and seven towed caravans, on a trip to Rome. Queen Mimi never made it. At Lendinara, ill with diabetes and a succession of heart attacks, she was forced to go to the hospital...
...others, and this year's records: Brooklyn Technical High School, one Merit Scholarship winner; the High School of Music and Art, one winner; Stuyvesant High School, six winners-tied for second place nationally with Evanston (Ill.) Township High School...
...Ottawa, Ill., ex-G.I. William Girard, who found a night-shift job back home bagging fertilizer after an undesirable discharge from the Army and a three-year sentence (suspended) from a Japanese court for killing a woman with an empty cartridge case on a firing range, confided that his Japanese-born wife Candy is expecting a tax exemption in August. Said he: "I think Candy wants a boy, and I certainly...
...tried to swing a deal with one of the more belligerent celebrities in the crowd. "What am I bid for Elsa Maxwell? This would be a good buy for Walter Winchell. How about Elsa, Walter?" But feuding Walter Winchell (see TV & RADIO) had quietly retired to his room, pleading ill health. Highest bidder of the evening: Desert Inn Owner Morris Kleinman, who bought California's Ken Venturi for $24,000. Right behind him came Crooner Frankie Laine, who got Three-Time Winner Gene Littler for the fourth time...