Word: thrill
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Radio listeners in Russia can thrill to the sudsy sentiment of soap opera like anyone else. Last week Radio Moscow fed their dreams with a tender play about a collective farm boy and a girl tractor-driver whom fate had chanced to place on the same (moonlit) night shift...
Died. H. T. (Harold Tucker) Webster, 67, cartoonist ("The Timid Soul," "Life's Darkest Moment," "The Thrill That Comes Once in a Lifetime") of a heart attack; on a train near Bridgeport, Conn. Webster's most popular creation was fluttery, myopic Caspar Milquetoast, but he was nearly as well-known for his cartooned jibes at bridge and canasta fiends, radio & TV (for which he received a Peabody Award in 1950), wives who never understand a joke, and for his knowing, sometimes poignant recollections of a turn-of-the-century childhood...
...this year's course of instruction roster. Those who found themselves incomprehensible to natives on their trip to France this summer may take a course in Pronounciation of French with Associate Professor Mareei A. Francon and return to the Continent next summer with a redoubtable accent. Or, if the thrill of taking a course with President Conant is worth the fatigue of a nine o'clock class, all they need is a smattering of philosophy and science and a little luck to be one of the fifty students in Philosophy 150. In it, President Conant will teach the dynamic conception...
...this year's course of instruction roster. Those who found themselves incomprehensible to natives on their trip to France this summer may take a course in Pronunciation of French with Associate Professor Mareei A. Francon and return to the Continent next summer with a redoubtable accent. Or, if the thrill of taking a course with President Conant is worth the fatigue of a nine o'clock class, all they need is a smattering of philosophy and science and a little luck to be one of the fifty students in Philosophy 150. In it, President Conant will teach the dynamic conception...
...Stateville prison in Joliet, Ill., the warden said that Inmate Nathan Leopold, now a bald 48, who teamed with Richard Loeb in the brutal 1924 "thrill murder" of 14-year-old Bobby Franks, has been a "very good" prisoner. He works as an X-ray technician in the prison hospital. Through the prison school and correspondence courses, he has learned "about 25 languages." Next New Year's Day he will be eligible for parole. His plans? Said the warden: "I don't think he knows himself what he'd do if he ever gets...