Word: pensioners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Amerigo Vespucci (1451-1512). The eponym in truth: a fine English lad named Richard Amerycke. In the Bristol view of history, Amerycke, a customs collector, saw to it that Italian Explorer John Cabot, who discovered Cape Breton Island in 1497 and claimed it for the British crown, received a pension from King Henry VII. A grateful Cabot then named the conquest for his benefactor. Said the Lord Mayor, straight-faced: ''Everyone in Bristol has always known...
PAINTER HENRI ROUSSEAU (1844-1910) was the son of a tinsmith, became a customs officer and started in art as a Sunday painter. In middle age he developed enough confidence to resign from the customs (now it would be "Sunday all week long"). He lived on a tiny pension, in a one-room studio, but he did not mind the cramped quarters because, when he woke up in the morning, he could "smile a little at his paintings." His now famed works suggested the bright but prim world of a precocious child, its whims ranging from shaggy liona to mustached...
...balloon expanding, paying off one loan with another. But when SEC moved in and started investigating, there was nothing to do but get out-quickly. A month ago Belle apparently started systematically looting the companies. As a sample of his thoroughness, he even tried to get the employees' pension funds of one of the companies, Troop Water Heater Co. Though the bank that held the funds in trust refused to go along, Belle got partial revenge. All but about $900 of the final week's paychecks for Troop, amounting to $4,500, bounced because Belle withdrew the funds...
...front "to redeem himself," and there he lost a leg and an arm. After first declaring him unfit for trial, West German authorities changed their minds when Sommer married a blonde nurse in 1956, fathered her child and casually applied for an increase in his veterans' pension. Sommer was haled into court. The charge: 53 murders. A psychiatrist's finding: legally sane but flagrantly sadistic...
...loyalties; in Prague. In 1946 Lausman liked the Russians; in 1947 he denounced them, but became Deputy Premier of Czechoslovakia when the Reds assumed control the next year. In 1950 he fled to the West, soon turned up in Yugoslavia, disappeared (perhaps by kidnaping) in 1953 from a pension in Austria, reappeared in Prague with a "confession" of the "spiritual suffering" he had undergone in Western Europe...