Word: mayhemic
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...almost every Briton knows, the school called St. Trinian's is a strange, spooky, neo-Gothic institution based somewhere in England. At St. Trinian's, gargoylish women in high-collared dresses and spindle-shanked girls in mussy black tunics go blithely through term after term of arson, mayhem and murder. For sheer energy, the St. Trinian's girl has no match...
...program Lets Pretend (CBS's oldest continuous dramatic show); of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Blonde, childless Widow Mack's Saturday fairy-tale program espoused courtesy and kindness, has long been something of an anachronism on air waves full of G-men, spacemen and cowboy mayhem, yet continues to draw 500-odd letters a week...
...named Jigoro Kano, is nothing more than a gentlemanly version of jujitsu. Kano learned the ancient art at 18, but decided that the kicking, stabbing and choking were more than he could stomach. So he founded the "muscle culture" of judo, an "efficient use of energy" that eliminated the mayhem and murder of jujitsu. Since Kano's time, the judo cult has spread to all corners of the globe. The first judo club was formed in Britain in 1918, in France in 1938. After the war, judo boomed. France, center of the European cult, now has 150,000 judo...
...Leonard Lyons* ("author of the 'Liar's Den' "), that editors and readers outside Manhattan often don't know what Winchell is talking about. As a result, editors have been cutting or killing many of his columns. Last week Winchell announced a plan to stop the mayhem. He will set aside two days a week for feuds. Wrote Winchell: "[I] will offer seven columns a week for New Yorkers. Syndicate papers can use if they wish. The Tuesday and Saturday columns will resume spotlighting the [local] pinks and punks...
...Lincolns (see BUSINESS). The 205-h.p. Lincolns, mounting four-barrel carburetors and heavy-duty shock absorbers, were led by A.A.A. Champion Driver Chuck Stevenson with a 90.96 m.p.h. average. Lincolns finished 1-2-3-4. Only 39 of the 91 starters finished, but in contrast to the mayhem of the past two races, only one driver, Mexican Santos Letona Diaz, was killed...