Word: madsen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Dr. Thorvald Madsen, 87, Danish bacteriologist, President (1921-40) of the League of Nations' Health Committee and Commission on Biological Standardization and a leader in world efforts to standardize serums and vaccines; in Copenhagen...
...died instantly with a bullet through his heart. When (as she later testified) Yvette "heard his blood" oozing from his chest, she ran to the home of a neighbor, screaming "I shot him!" Soon afterward an Air Force MP found Andy's body in the Madsen living room close by a note written by Yvette: "I know my husband will beat me up. My only defense is to shoot him, the heel, the rat, the low creature...
There was little of Flatbush left in the dark-eyed, glamour-bobbed brunette who called herself Yvette Madsen. Only a hint of Canarsie in her consonants, a touch of Gowanus in her vowels remained to mark her as plain Jane Noack, a kid born in Brooklyn 22 years ago. Yvette was glad enough to have left Jane behind...
...evening last October Yvette went to a cocktail party near Frankfurt with her husband, U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Andrew Madsen. They drank bourbon-and-Coke, played "Pass the Kleenex,"*and Yvette twitted her Georgia-born host, another U.S. officer, on his Dixie drawl. "O.K.," responded the airman good-naturedly, "how do you say it in Brook-lynese?" Sensitive Yvette slapped the joker full in the face and demanded that her husband take her home immediately. Andy Madsen, a Californian, was too busy laughing to pay much attention. He tossed her the keys to the family car, and Yvette stormed...
...precise, monocled German psychiatrist attempted to convince three U.S. judges-Fred Cohn, John Speight and Herman Elegant-that Yvette was of unsound mind. Immaculate in morning coat and pinstriped trousers, Professor Karl Kleist testified that Mrs. Madsen was reacting to a deep-seated persecution complex when she shot her husband for laughing at her Brooklynese. "As far as I am informed," explained the professor, "this is the dialect of the common people. Since it revealed Mrs. Madsen's common origin, she felt insulted...