Word: maryse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beyond the Call. In St. Marys, W. Va., after the operator refused to return his dime when he complained of a poor connection, Truck Driver Myles Milton yanked the phone off the wall, smashed it on the floor, told police: "I was tired."
Modern poetry often seems a pretty dreary cocktail party. In a quiet corner, of course, perches the aged eagle, T. S. Eliot, 66, still far and away the No. 1 living poet of the 20th century, sipping his extra-dry sherry of resignation. His old white magic still works, but...
Eternally Quiet. At Columbia, Burns and Columbia's President Dwight Eisenhower met only casually. But when Ike went to the White House, the doom criers already were predicting a new era of bread lines and Apple Marys. The three-member Council of Economic Advisers had lost professional standing under...
But that night, the banished filed resignedly out the Black Palace's back gate. Each got 20 pesos, three packs of cigarettes and a packet of food, then climbed into a guarded boxcar drawn up on a spur. At Manzanillo, 600 dark miles later, the convicts would embark in...
At noon one day last week, by special messenger from the Bureau of Prisons, came orders for a cuerda of 215 prisoners. The grapevine quickly spread the dread word. In cell block C, the Black Palace's toughest cons beat out the prison's nervousness in a clomping...