Word: skeletonic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Four recent libel suits did not faze Confidential magazine (TIME. July 11) and caused no change in its up-from-the sewer journalistic formula of sex and sin. But in Washington last month, Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield threw a scare into the magazine that rattled every skeleton in its closet; he barred Confidential from the mails after a "number of complaints." Post Office officials objected to among other things, a racy description of a stripteaser's gyrations and a "questionable cheesecake photograph of Hollywood Starlet Terry Moore. Hereafter each issue of Confidential must be cleared by the Post Office...
Last week the diggers found a shallow grave containing the skeleton of a young man close to seven feet tall. His shield, spear and knife identified him as a Saxon of the early fifth century. All his limbs were broken, according to the pagan burial custom (perhaps to cripple the ghost), and the back of his skull had been bashed in. The diggers hoped that one of the Britons of Puddle Hill had liquidated at least one of the monstrous Saxons...
...Museum of Comparative Zoology (top right) an undergraduate peers up at the skeleton of a 50-foot sperm whale, while a young resident of Boston (top left) looks with some uneasiness at the worldly remains of a gorilla. At the left are two Peruvian mummies photographed in the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Below are samples of the ruins at Copan, Honduras-probably the best known example of Mayan culture at its palmiest...
...provincial government of Formosa has increased its independence, until today there are only 12,000 employees in the national government v. 113,000 in the provincial government. Except for Foreign Affairs and the Defense Ministry, most of the national ministries, their functions duplicated by provincial departments, are only skeleton organizations with nothing to do but plan for the day of The Return...
There is, for instance, the one about the medical student who, during a murder scare, takes a ride on a crowded bus with a bulky package that proves, amid screams and general pandemonium, to contain a skeleton. There is the portentous purchase of the first stethoscope: "No, no. I think that's a little old for you, sir. What about this one? . . . Oh, yes. That's very much more you, sir. Comfy? Comfy?" There is the usual lecherous intern (named Benskin and known as "the ravishing reindeer") and the redheaded night nurse ("You succulent starched uniform with...