Word: playpen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cold Pistol Barrel. The Sachsenhausen prisoners, ranged in two rows in a playpen-like dock, made no attempt to deny their crimes. Some of them, doubtless under Russian influence, talked like the accused in 1937 purge trials. "I got into this net of criminality," said dark, intense August Hoehn, the camp second-in-command. (In one day, Hoehn had hanged, gassed and shot 510 prisoners in petulance over a superior's rebuke.) "I got so tangled in its strands, I couldn't go back. At the mere thought I could feel the cold barrel of a pistol...
...venom-charged atmosphere the prisoners themselves seemed the least concerned. Towering, monocled Colonel General Eberhard von Mackensen stared impassively at his judges. Wax-faced Lieut. General Kurt Maeltzer, wartime Roman governor, sat beside him, hunched and bewildered. Between sessions he went to earn cigarets by building a playpen for a British guard's baby...
From the time it was conceived, television was a long time aborning. Soon it learned to talk, but instead of standing up and walking like its big brother, radio, it has crawled along without getting very far. Last week, still rattling in its playpen, television took a few tentative steps...
Died. Lou Costello Jr., youngest child of capering, cornfed Comedian Lou (Abbott &) Costello; after loosening a playpen slat, falling into the family swimming pool; the day before his first birthday; in Van Nuys, Calif. A few hours later his father went on the air for the first time after a seven-month illness and covered up with jokes about such subjects as life insurance...