Word: paule
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hiding was his own idea, Paul Makushak said: he had just not liked the way the world was going. Certainly no one should blame his mother. The police, who get used to strange things, looked hard at the small hideaway and sniffed. They were not sure Makushak had been living there for a decade, but someone had been living there messily for a long time...
...Paul Makushak had succeeded, as far as police could learn, in his desire to be alone. No one except his mother had known he was there. His father, Peter, had been told years ago to stay downstairs, and he had stayed, sleeping in the back of his jumbled first-floor tailor shop and dry-goods store. Peter Makushak rarely saw his wife and believed her story that their son had gone to Canada...
When police last week took Paul to Kings County Hospital, Chief Psychiatrist Samuel Parker first ordered a cleanup: shave, haircut, bath. Physically, Paul was in pretty good shape, except for weakness of the leg muscles and bad teeth. He had once weighed 200 pounds and was down to 170. His answers were intelligent: when asked whether he had registered for the 1940 draft, he said he would not talk until he had seen a lawyer...
...Letter to Three Wives. Some humorous observations of marriage and morals in the suburbs; with Paul Douglas, Kirk Douglas, Linda Darnell and Ann Sothern (TIME...
Wall Street Investment Banker Paul V. Shields moved into full control of huge Curtiss-Wright Corp. Shields, who had helped the corporation with its financing, was invited in by the directors last December to reorganize the management. President William C. Jordan disagreed with Shields's plan to go outside the aeronautical field to get new business; the company had not done too well making non-aeronautical products. Last week both Jordan and Chairman Guy W. Vaughan, who had stepped out of the presidency when Jordan stepped in, left the company. Shields began shopping for a new president...