Word: pumpkin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...patients whose ulcers are still active, there are such conventional horrors as poached eggs and milk toast. But for quiescent ulcers, there is a wide range, from broiled beefsteak, boiled lobster, venison and wild duck to cheesecake and pumpkin pie. Still on the forbidden list (along with strong drinks): pork, nuts, baked beans, clams, corn, cabbage, tomatoes, radishes and cucumbers...
...suit that began it all-the $75,000 libel and slander suit filed against Whittaker Chambers in 1948 by Alger Hiss-was quietly dropped in Baltimore's federal district court. To answer the suit, Chambers brought forth the famed "pumpkin papers." Result: Hiss's indictment and conviction for perjury. Federal Judge W. Calvin Chesnut last week dismissed the suit "with prejudice," which means that Hiss (now serving a five-year sentence at Lewisburg, Pa. penitentiary) may never again file a similar action against Chambers...
Though most goalies on their off nights look as though they could no more stop a pumpkin than a puck, Goalie Sawchuk, a steel-nerved youngster of Ukrainian descent, never seems to get rattled. Says admiring Detroit General Manager Jack Adams: "In all the years we have watched Terry he's never had a bad game. He is always alert and reacting to every player's maneuverings from the minute that man gets the puck...
...Bizarre Sisters offers up popular fiction's oldest standby: the lowly Cinderella who suffers endlessly at the hands of cruel relatives until in the last pages her pumpkin changes to a coach and the prince proposes. The Authors Walz play it for plot, and their plot ripples its muscles admirably. Yet to be convinced that the Randolphs really lived, readers will need more than a note that "except for one supernumerary, no character in this book is imaginary." All blacks and whites, Sisters moves along like a lively shadow play in which no grey shadings ever intrude to slow...
...mice are no longer bit-players merely to be hitched to the pumpkin but full-blown Disney creations, scampering and squealing through the whole story in a chivalrous conspiracy to help Cinderella. Their fellow conspirators include birds, an amiable barnyard nag and a hound named Bruno, who is clearly a close relative of Pluto. Other new characters: a monocled, silly-ass grand duke and the villainous Lucifer, a spoiled, airily arrogant...