Word: madding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mad Bomber's New Attempt Spurs Hunt by 20,000 Cops...
...goggle-eyed New Yorker could guess from reading the biggest and blackest headlines, the "Mad Bomber" had struck. His calling card: a crude but workable bomb made of gunpowder, set to be detonated by a cheap watch movement wired to a flashlight battery-all contained in a short (2-5 in.) length of ordinary pipe capped at both ends. And, to provide the final touch, the pipe was stuffed into a man's red sock...
...been striking, on and off-so police said-for the last 16 years, but only now had the harassed New York City cops decided to let the city newspapers play the story up big, in the hope that wide publicity would flush him out. Besides, the Mad Bomber's latest activities were such that the cops could hardly keep the case to themselves...
Last January I got pretty mad when TIME picked Harlow Curtice as Man of the Year. This year I would like to beat you to the punch. I predict your boy will be: Janos Kadar...
...better vaudeville act than she and some of her colleagues did last week at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera. It began, more or less, during a matinee of Lucia di Lammermoor which was broad cast from coast to coast. Often Callas sang superbly, notably in the famous mad scene, but sometimes she sounded as shrill as static, and during her second-act duet with Baritone Enzo Sordello she dropped her highest note like a hot knife, while Baritone Sordello held his. What happened next could be the script for a third-rate opera buff...