Word: unknown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Unknown Soldier...
...Unknown Soldier's Widow. Such shoddy shady practices are within the law of many states, as long as some pittance goes to a genuine charity, but the Tompkins-Rabin committee promised, after the first round of witnesses last week, to seek legislation to end the charity rackets. Worried administrators of such legitimate charities as the Salvation Army, the Red Cross and the various Community Chests pointed out that their fund-raising and administrative costs rarely exceed 12%. There was widespread fear that worthy causes would suffer financial loss in the exposure of the rackets...
...public, which freely contributes to such hoaxes as the relief fund for "The Unknown Soldier's Widow," showed no signs of tightening its purse strings. U.S. charities of all kinds will receive more than $4 billion this year...
...Unknown Factor. Mass production will take some of the curse off color TV's high price, but just how much no one knows. While Emerson Radio President Benjamin Abrams confidently expects that color sets will drop to within 25% of black & white in 18 months. Magnavox President Frank Freimann thinks the price will never be comparable...
Even the Literary Guild, customarily little interested in unknown novelists, chose three first novels in 1953, and two were good. Stephania, a story of difficult and subtle relationships among patients in a Swedish hospital, was the surprising work of Ilona Karmel, a Polish graduate of Nazi concentration camps who wrote an adopted English that was both expert and moving. The other was Helen Fowler's The Intruder, an Australian novel about a mind-sick veteran and the family of his dead buddy. Another notable first was Mr. Nicholas, a whiplash dissection of a tyrannical London father by young...