Word: penciled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Julian Seymour Schwinger, thirty-five-year-old Professor of physics, has kept his life pretty much to himself. Since his seventeenth birthday, this genial, soft-spoken man has been challenging the frontiers of physics, armed with only his intellect, a pencil, and paper. Far removed from most undergraduates, only dimly aware of the machinery of collegiate life, and vaguer even about his own past, Schwinger dwells in a world apart. His personality spills out only in odd stories--his reputation for writing with both hands on the blackboard, his night-owl habits, and his excellence at ping-pong...
Christ receive his crown of thorns. One wore a toothbrush mustache; the other had a jutting chin. The resemblance to Hitler and Mussolini was too close for coincidence. Explained Designer Albert Birkle: "My pencil, as if by accident, drew the image of Hitler and Mussolini on the drawing board. I find nothing disturbing in putting these two men. who killed thousands of priests and millions of Christians, among the persecutors of Christ." But Graz was disturbed. Wrote the Grazer Montag: "In a church this sort of thing has no place." Church officials decided to keep the window...
...Heady, six days after their arrest, stopped lying. They admitted taking Bobby Greenlease across the Missouri state line into Kansas to a spot twelve miles east of Kansas City. There Hall, in the presence of Mrs. Heady, shot the boy. At the murder site, FBI agents found a mechanical pencil which Bobby's father had given him. Hall cleared Tom Marsh, still unfound. of any part in the crime. Hall disclosed the most grisly detail of the whole horrifying crime, one of the worst in U.S. history. He said that the grave had been dug and the quicklime bought...
This cleared up the case, except for the whereabouts of some $300,000 of ransom money, for which police are still searching. After confessing. Hall sank into a sullen silence, and Mrs. Heady asked for a pencil so she could work a crossword puzzle. The request was refused because she was classed as a "maximum security prisoner." So she settled down with a comic book: Intimate Love. Hall was being kept in solitary confinement, so that other prisoners would not harm...
...story. Next day, after Ike had confirmed the news at his press conference, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's veteran Raymond Brandt, longtime specialist in Supreme Court affairs, got to his feet. "Pete" Brandt had been refused an interview with Brownell a few days earlier. Pointing his pencil menacingly at Ike, Brandt asked: "Is it going to be the policy of this Administration to leak such important news to friendly newspapers...