Word: mayhem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chicago, rabid Bear fans pass up seats on the 40-yd. line to sit in the end zone, where they can get a head-on view of the intricate mayhem of line play. They know what they are seeing. "Chicago's hittin' inside the tackles, and Frisco's stacking the defense inside," complained one end zoner at the game eventually won by the Bears, 14-3. "Look at those corner linebackers pull in, and how close the tackles up front are playing! I mean, how can you run through that ton of beef...
...married (he also has three sons, Edgar Jr., 17, Henry, 15, and Kim, 11, in Eastern prep schools). Whether Edgar and his wife are ensconced in their six-bedroom, Spanish-style home in Lafayette, Calif, or speeding around the world, being with him, says Mrs. Kaiser, is "living with mayhem-and enjoying...
Next comes a guillotine murder, followed in rapid succession by an icepick murder, an electrocution, and in the finale, two knifings. As the audience learns early in the show and suspects even earlier, the man responsible for all this mayhem is a crime reporter and biographer who, with an admirable collector's instinct, is creating his own Black Museum to surpass that of Scotland Yard...
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). The 500th hour of Westing-house-sponsored drama. Two Counts of Murder gives Raymond Massey and David Janssen a chance to tangle with politics, nepotism, young love, and just enough mayhem to keep the plot boiling...
...bestseller list for two months, a remarkable feat for a nonmusical disk. And sociologists, both professional and amateur, see in the sick comedians a symptom of the 20th century's own sickness. Says one: "It's like the last days of Rome-all this horror and mayhem in humor...