Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...name was withheld, told the court that she first met Keyser in a dairy where she had gone to buy milk. He nodded to her, the girl said, and asked where she lived. The next day they met again at the dairy and, said the girl, Keyser asked to visit her. The girl said that she refused that request and a second one later, but that on Jan. 29 she agreed. "He said he would come about 9 p.m. and would give me ?I [$2.80]," the girl testified. The girl went to the police. When Keyser arrived on schedule...
...mere overture to a long vaudeville show of astonishment presented in Rampa's account of his Tibetan life, The Third Eye (Doubleday; $3.50). Other attractions included levitation, riding in kites ("horrible swayings and bobbings did unpleasant things to my stomach"), man-mauling Siamese cats, Abominable Snowmen, and a visit to the mummified remains of one of his own previous incarnations...
Desire Under the Shoe. Even a novice needs no more than one visit to the track to learn that there are other ways for jockeys to win. Such great riders as Eddie Arcaro (TIME, May 17, 1948) and Ted Atkinson, though they may look just as rough as Willie when they are going down the stretch in a scrap for a big purse, sit their mounts with something that could be called style. Even more in contrast are the sensitive, stylish operators of the genus Willie Shoemaker, who win even the close ones without seeming...
...woman tagged as Anna Battachi got worse, was moved into bed No. 19 in the ward. The one tagged as Giuseppina Mettlica was moved into bed No. 33. The hospital called Anna Battachi's brother Anselmo to visit his failing sister. He sat for hours beside bed No. 19. The patient was in an oxygen mask, unrecognizable, unable to talk. Soon she died. Anna's sister Cesira, hurriedly summoned from Bologna, went to the mortuary and screamed: "This isn't my sister." A male nurse told her confidently: "Faces change after death. That was your sister...
Better Than Most. When Saturday came. Giuseppina Mettlica's working neighbors were free to visit her. Astorria Alessi was led to bed No. 33, where Giuseppina's chart hung. But the woman looked different. Besides, protested Astorria. "my friend came in a pink underskirt." At mention of this garment, one of the volunteers recalled: "The patient who died in bed No. 19 was buried in a pink underskirt." Now at last the volunteers understood why the woman in bed No. 33 had muttered protests when they called her Giuseppina. She was in fact Anna Bianca Battachi...