Word: l
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...detention, they said, were undoubtedly the result of "the criminal activities" of then State Security Chief Viktor Abakumov, who was executed in 1954 for "crimes against Soviet laws" as an accomplice of his boss, Lavrenty Beria. There was, the Russians said, a report to Abakumov from Colonel A. L. Smoltsov, chief of the Lubianka medical service, certifying Wallenberg's death, and adding that the body had been ordered cremated without a postmortem...
Polish-born pianist Artur Rubinstein, 68, down south in Birmingham for a concert, looked back on decades of U.S. tours, hailed the cultural progress of the nation's hinterland, parts of which were once dismissed by H. L. Mencken as "the Sahara of the bozarts." Rubinstein sees the U.S. as a sprawling oasis: "In the past 25 years this country has made more advances than some places in Europe have made in 250 years. Small towns throughout America are more receptive to fine music than old cities in France like Lyon, Marseille and Bordeaux...
Billing himself as "An Evening of Culture at the Corcoran," chain-smoking Cartoonist Al (Li'l Abner) Capp strolled into the Washington museum, ripped joyfully into modern art while his listeners choked, fretted and guffawed nervously. Capp's special quarrel was with the pure abstractionists-"that small group of the unbalanced who sell shameless products through a larger group of avaricious and unprincipled to an enormous group of the totally dazed." Aren't the abstractionists' products good for anything? Sneered (Ugh!) Critic Capp later: "They'd make good neckties for Elks' conventions...
...Keller, who was both blind and deaf. Annie's first act was to thrust a doll into the hands of her pupil. "When I had played with it a little while," recalled Helen Keller years later, "Miss Sullivan slowly spelled into my hand the word 'd-o-l-l.' I was at once interested in this finger play ... I did not know [for several weeks] that I was spelling a word or even that words existed." For almost 50 years Annie Sullivan lived in the shadow of the golden night of Helen Keller's world...
LAYOFFS are coming for Trans World Airlines as first step in economy drive by new President Carter L. Burgess (TIME, Dec. 17). Burgess complains that TWA has hired 4,900 new employees in past two years, says he may cut entire force...