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Perhaps the unhappiest example of Memorial Day slaughter occurred near Cornwall, Conn. A sports car in which two young men were leaving a beer party climbed a grade along Bunker Hill on a clear afternoon, somehow skidded into the wrong lane, crashed head-on into a sedan. In the sedan, Albert Wilklow, 42, and his entire family (Wife Georgette, 37, Sons Albert Jr., 14, Frank, 12, and Daughter Paula, 10) were returning to their home in Torrington, Conn., after a day of fishing at a state park. All five died in the flaming crash. So did the occupants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disasters: Shattering Records | 6/7/1963 | See Source »

Without Good Will. Industries and mail-order stores organized their own makeshift postal services. Unhappiest vic tims by far were a Yorkshire laborer, Len Darnton, and Surrey Garage Hand Gabby Senecal, who both mailed in winning football pool coupons but failed to collect $27.000 and $75,000 because their entries were not delivered in time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: Rebellion by the Rules | 1/19/1962 | See Source »

...world's most durable dictator turned 72 last week. It was surely the unhappiest birthday for AntÓnio de Oliveira Salazar in the 29 years of his one-man rule of Portugal. He confronted growing unrest at home, bloody rebellion in his big African colony of Angola, found few sympathetic world allies anywhere except in South Africa. But in his first interview in five years (to Brazil's 0 Cruzeiro Correspondent Mario de Moraes) the old autocrat was as acid and abrasive as ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Portugal: Unhappy Birthday | 5/5/1961 | See Source »

Blood Feud. In its simplest, unhappiest terms, the fight is the result of a blood feud between Lewis Strauss and Clint Anderson, both eminently capable, dedicated citizens who have served the nation long and well, but who, by the chemistry of personality and the conflict of ideas, have come to hate each other. But the Strauss case has gone far beyond the personal quarrel between two men; it has widened out to involve their friends and their associates, strained old ties and old loyalties, brought charge and countercharge, insult and counterinsult, rumor and counterrumor. And it has become a major...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: The Strauss Affair | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

Varsity ace Joel Landau had one of the unhappiest days of his brilliant career, winning only one race, the high hurdles, in 14.9. Troubled by foot ailments, he was shut out in the 220 behind a Yale sweep led by Dave Bain with a meet mark...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Track Varsity Bows to Bulldogs, 82-58 | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

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