Word: petered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russian-born Peter Kapitsa, after a distinguished career as one of Britain's top physicists, went to Moscow for a scientific conference. He never came back. In the months that followed, while Kapitsa himself lived in silence, the Western world's topmost scientists clamored furiously for his release. The Russians ended by paying hard cash to Cambridge University for the special laboratory Cambridge had built for the scientist to work in, but as to releasing Kapitsa, they would hear none...
From then on, as scientific experiment became more and more a closely guarded secret the world over, nobody heard much of anything about Peter Kapitsa. But in the years following World War II, when the menace of the hydrogen bomb loomed large and black, the thoughts of many a scientist who had known Kapitsa harked back to the days of his early and significant experiments on the behavior of hydrogen. It was presumed that if Russia had indeed perfected an H-bomb, Kapitsa's vast knowledge must have been of considerable help. The Russian government granted him a long...
Princess Margaret and R.A.F. Group Captain Peter Townsend, the suitor she rejected for tradition's sake, left London separately, but at the same time, for a country weekend. Margaret was a house guest of Viscount and Lady Hambleden, youthful (26 and 22, respectively) chaperons, if such be needed. Though Townsend's cronies were darkly evasive about his whereabouts, wilder speculation was that he and the Princess were having one last reunion before Townsend, for whom the course of true love proved impassable, departs on an around-the-world car tour (TIME, June 18) all by himself...
...Your Throats." Thereafter, the Manhattan press did its best to cooperate. Most papers printed little Peter's formula daily, relayed messages from the Weinbergers to the kidnaper (with no apparent success), ran detailed descriptions of the missing child. But the damage had already been done. Interviewed by three reporters, Peter's sobbing mother cried out: "I could cut all your throats." Fumed Chief of Detectives Stuyvesant Pinnell: "We would have got a hell of a lot further if there had been no interference from the press...
...Humane Thing. When the kidnaper gave no sign of responding to the appeal, police admitted to newsmen that Peter Weinberger's survival was now "a matter for conjecture." At week's end, with little to report, newsmen had time to do some earnest soul-searching. Though other dailies continued to print pointed explanations of why the blackout had failed, the News stuck to its story that the police request for secrecy had been made too late. Other newsmen were outspokenly skeptical...