Word: mousetrapped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York producers bid for the rights, and the authors turned down more lucrative offers to sign with Feldstein, who last year presented Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap...
...makers have decided to install safety belts in their '62 models. A world full of earnest men coexisting dogmatically and all wearing safety belts is perhaps a little too richly utopian for a generation taught to look at life gloomily--as if from the inside of someone's Better Mousetrap. Yet such a sunny world is emerging, and science has recently made a comforting discovery which ought to dispel completely any snivelling doubts that things are getting better...
Responsible for the method is Dr. Harold T. Meryman of the Naval Medical Research Institute at Bethesda, Md., who stumbled onto the new-type taxidermy after a peanut butter-baited mousetrap at his home snared an unsuspecting cardinal. "I felt so bad about it," says Meryman, "that I decided I ought to give the bird a place in posterity." No taxidermist. Biophysicist Meryman, 39, tried an experiment. Posing the cardinal carefully, he first froze its joints into position with liquid nitrogen, then popped the bird into his kitchen freezer. When the moisture in the bird's body had turned...
MYSTERY: The Mousetrap, Agatha Christie's first play on Broadway since Witness for the Prosecution, perpetrates its murder in a snowbound manor. Still on stage in London after neany eight years of continuous performances, it is the longest running play in the history of the English theater...