Word: von
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...laxity, whereupon the Army dropped the tough specifications about espionage and perjury (and thus reduced the sentence). Then, Nickerson's civilian counsel Ray H. Jenkins (of Army-McCarthy fame) produced, one by one, a galaxy of star witnesses including the creator of Hitler's V2, Wernher von Braun, to deliver what he called "mitigating" evidence. "Is not Nickerson bitterly partisan?" he asked one witness, a German research scientist. "Yes-in favor of the Army," said the scientist...
...McDaniel boys-both righthanders, both Bible students-grew up throwing their bullets in Hollis (pop. 3,089), Okla. Lindy got $50,000 to sign in 1955, when he was just 19, had only a mediocre year in 1956 (7-6). When Von struck out 243 batters this spring in his senior year in high school, big-league scouts swarmed around the McDaniel cotton farm once again. But father Newell McDaniel had his mind made up. "Just like Lindy, the price is $50,000," he said. "There's no bidding. I want the two boys to play together." Hastily, Cardinal...
This year big brother Lindy matured into one of the best pitchers in the league, by last week had a 7-3 record. Better yet, young Von was fooling major-league batters as efficiently as he fooled the high-school kids back home, was unscored on after 17 innings of pitching, had a 2-0 record. Paced by the tremendous hitting of Old Standby Stan Musial. who leads the league in batting (.365) and runs batted in (53), is second in home runs (15), the Cardinals for the first time in eleven years seemed bent on flying...
...Margaret to the care of a frenetic novelist and proprietor of a finishing school named Blanche Willis Howard, who became The False Friend Who Poisoned Her Daughter's Mind Against Her Mother. She herself fell under the care of the sinister Württemberg court physician. Dr. Julius von Teuffel, who fed her a hypnotic drug called sulfonal. At this point the proliferating plot begins to evoke Bertha, The Sewing Machine Girl...
...World. Von Teuffel, suggest the violently pro-Harriet biographers, acted at the instigation of P'ison Jim Seymour, who had helped finance Harriet's thriving cosmetic business and wanted to keep his hands on it.* There was a mad cannonade of charges and countercharges: that she was a loose woman, that she took dope, that she was addicted to alcohol and even drank hair dye to get it. Did Seymour hire a model to leave Harriet's offices-"clad only in blue tights"? Did he suborn witnesses to swear it was Harriet? These questions are not resolved...