Word: victim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First Person (Fri. 8:30 p.m., NBCTV) often uses the camera as one of its actors, and leans toward old-fashioned horror stories. Last week's show was a supernatural melodrama about a numbed victim and a reluctant murderer, but toward the end, the eerie quality dissolved into unexplained silliness. Sponsor: Gulf...
Anderson's victim was Rear Admiral Homer N. Wallin, 59, chief of the Navy's Bureau of Ships. Wallin led the fight to prevent promotion-and thus bring automatic retirement-of Navy Captain Hyman Rickover, a brilliant, freewheeling Navy engineer who developed the atomic submarine. Secretary Anderson inherited the Rickover mess and the senatorial protests over the obvious injustice. Anderson examined the facts, disregarded Wallin's advice, and convened a special selection board which advanced Rickover to rear admiral. (He was confirmed by the Senate last week...
...Hutchinson, "Mr. Matthews refused to meet the strikers' demands. To him they seemed not workers pursuing a normal course for bringing grievances to management's attention; they were mutineers." Matthews emerged from the dispute "an embittered man with a completely reversed outlook. He regarded himself as the victim of a Communist plot." Matthews became chief investigator for Martin Dies' new House Committee on Un-American Activities...
...have both the knowledge they need to wipe out tuberculosis as a public-health problem and the tools to finish the job. In the U.S., at least, with plenty of space for its people, resources to house and feed them decently, and wonder drugs by the carload, the TB victim these days dies not so much from his disease as from neglect. Last week health and Government officials in Alabama were in distress as they faced up to the fact that, although their state runs an energetic TB detection campaign, it lags sadly in preventing the disease and caring...
...framed copy of Burt's The Real Victim, a tearful protest against domestic discord, had been hung by Judge Cornelius Harrington just inside his courtroom in the Cook County circuit court. Last week, when a pretty blonde named Lorraine Eliasen, 25, appeared in court with her husband seeking temporary alimony pending trial of her separate-maintenance suit, Judge Harrington thought that the Eliasens looked ripe for the poetic treatment. He called the couple into his chambers, told them what a "beautiful-looking couple" they were and what a "gorgeous-looking boy" little five-year-old Roy was. Says Harrington...