Word: illness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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RICHARD C. WEDEL Durand, Ill...
...boss of Soviet writers, who is reputed to be an MVD official assigned to the part of an intellectual in search of peace. Their showpiece-and the only visitor of major stature-was Composer Dmitri Shostakovich. A shy, stiff-shouldered man with a pale, wide forehead, Shostakovich was painfully ill at ease. To the repeated ovations he received he ducked his head abruptly again & again, like a small boy after a commencement speech. He cringed visibly from the photographers' flashbulbs, mopped his brow, twiddled his spectacles. During speeches, his long fingers seemed to be tapping out some nameless composition...
Riddled with Slugs. Ma had her lover riddled with slugs and dumped into Webster Lake, Minn., because she thought he had tipped off the cops to one of their hideouts. She had George ("Shotgun George") Zeigler murdered in Cicero, Ill., Al Capone's old stamping ground, because he was losing his mind and getting talkative. From the Barkers' overstuffed, garish headquarters in Tulsa, she engineered her boys' forays right down to the detail maps for the getaway, and she made the Barker-Karpis mob the terror of the Midwest...
Even the mentally ill feel television's hypnotic spell. Indiana State Prison has already reported that television 1) has a calming effect on its mental-case prisoners, and 2) results in a saving on sedatives. Last week, in rural Amityville, N.Y., Dr. George E. Carlin installed five television sets for his mental patients at Louden-Knickerbocker Hall, a 63-year-old private sanatorium. Said Owner John F. Louden: "We're using TV as a form of occupational therapy, to take the patients' minds off themselves and to let them live nearer to a normal life...
...charming book . . . When I say anything silly or absurd to Mr. Winsten ... he corrects me ... by substituting what he himself would wisely and sensibly have said." However, Shaw admits, "When Turner had to paint a view of a city, and found the church or the castle ... ill situated, he put them in their right places and gave us a landscape worth a thousand photographs...