Word: maniacs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that make the most lurid tabloid story read like Mother Goose. In the current issue of Standard Magazines' True Life Stories, a teen-ager in 7,000 action-packed words recounts her father's suicide, her poverty-ridden childhood with a lunatic grandmother, rape by a giggling maniac, seduction by her boss's stepson, addiction to "sex pills," confinement in a home for delinquent girls. Of eleven stories in the April issue of Macfadden Publications' True Story, three involve unwed mothers, two concern alcoholism, two feature divorce, another relates the plight of a girl...
...Honor More. In Copenhagen, after reading a lurid newspaper report of the attempted holdup of a woman, a 17-year-old wrongdoer gave himself up to police, explained: "I want to let you know that it hurts my pride to be identified as a sex maniac. All I needed was her money...
...Communist literature of the world." Through most of his article Nenni refers to Khrushchev as "K," as though he were a symbolic figure in a Kafka fantasy. "From the revelations of K," says Nenni, "we learn that the guest of the Kremlin appears to have been practically a maniac who, like the figure of the dictator in which Charlie Chaplin portrayed Hitler, 'drew plans on a map of the world.' K cannot contain his laughter at and contempt for Stalin's military genius. Of the historical and military films of Stalin he says that 'they make...
...shown a normal concern for racial problems -which are slight in Milwaukee with a Negro community numbering about 31,000 in a metropolitan population of nearly 1,000,000. Zeidler has created a human rights commission, plumped hard for public housing in Negro districts, and in 1952 (after a maniac-who happened also to be a Negro-shot and killed three white persons) asked the Milwaukee Crime Commission to study Negro economic and social problems...
...months in prison after police told in city court how he had taken five jobs in three weeks, got himself fired from each within two hours and collected a week's pay by phoning his new employer: "Get rid of that man White; he's a homicidal maniac...