Word: kim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ronnie Kim was born without hope, a pathetic piece of flotsam tossed by the surging tide of the Korean war. His father was a U.S. Army colonel who left Korea soon after Ronnie's birth to return to the solider comfort of a wife and two legitimate children back home. Ronnie's mother was a puffy, ailing, gold-toothed Korean woman well on in years. After a year of vain efforts to keep Ronnie clothed and fed on the profits of prostitution, she died of malnutrition and tuberculosis...
...Adventists did their best to nurse Ronnie back to life and health. At last, his luck seemed to have turned; he was adopted by a kindly Korean nurse named Grace Kim who had already adopted a war-orphaned girl. Grace scrounged food and vitamins for Ronnie, gave him the love he needed and dreamed of sending him one day to the U.S. But Ronnie coughed more and more, and then developed even more alarming symptoms. He began walking with an old man's stoop, and, when he dropped a toy, he would fall to the floor before he could...
Philco TV Playhouse (Sun. 9 p.m., NBC). The Brownstone, with Kim Stanley, Janice Rule, Eli Wallach...
Philco Radio Playhouse (Wed. 9 p.m., ABC). Hear My Heart Speak, with Joseph Gotten, Kim Stanley...
...Died. Kim Sigler, 59. onetime Republican governor of Michigan (1947-48); when his private plane rammed a television tower and crashed; near Battle Creek, Mich...