Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Havoc. In Wallsend, Australia, Hilton Clifford, 42, fell into a beery sleep during a cops-and-robbers movie, woke up when the villain was bludgeoning the heroine, ran through the town yelling for help, tore up a wooden station house gate to attract police to the scene, was fined ?1 ($2.24), ordered to pay ?10 damages...
...party people. These were experts in that kind of concealment, and they laughed appreciatively at Bulganin's easy reference to the "vast territories in which, if desired, one can conceal anything." But it was a guffaw all too reminiscent of Vishinsky's famous blunder ("I could hardly sleep all last night . . . because I kept laughing," said Vishinsky of U.S. peace proposals in 1951). Newsmen spread the story across the world's wires: Russians laugh down Eisenhower's peace proposal...
...Christopher Isherwood, a struggling author. He offers to share his apartment with her. In gratitude, she asks: "Shall we have a drink first, or shall we go right to bed?" But Isherwood is too idealistic for that sort of thing, so the two decide to live but not to sleep together. From that point on, Sally drags the reluctant Isherwood along on a series of crazy escapades, notably with a rich American who happily pays the bills in return for shacking up with Sally. Her one serious moment arrives when she decides that she is pregnant, but she again becomes...
Died. Rear Admiral Apollo Soucek, 58, onetime (1953-55) chief of the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics, crack Navy test pilot and onetime holder of altitude records for sea-(38,560 ft. in 1929) and landplanes (43,166 ft. in 1930); of a heart attack in his sleep. Annapolisman Soucek, member of a famed Navy flying team (brother Zeus is a retired lieutenant commander turned aircraft-industry executive), was air officer of the carrier Hornet when it launched the Doolittle B-25 raid on Tokyo. in 1942, later commanded Task Force 77 in Korean waters...
Later when the deal was finally sewn up, O'Neil was flown back to General Tire's Akron headquarters to get the board's approval, finally stumbled into bed, groaning: "I haven't had any sleep for 36 hours. He's a very clever man, a very clever man." Hughes's estimated profit: about...