Word: wente
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year-old woman, a retired schoolteacher. "Hello," she said pleasantly. "This is your listener." Her caller said "Hello" back, but there was uncertainty in her voice. "Is this your first call to us?" the schoolteacher prompted gently. "Yes," came the reply. The subsequent conversation between two strangers went like this...
...deaf and apparently mad. His physicians, limited in their medical knowledge and hindered by protocol in examining their royal patient (they could not inquire how he felt unless he spoke to them first), had long since concluded that the King was "under an entire alienation of mind." George III went down in history as the mad monarch, a judgment accepted by generations of historians and buttressed by psychiatric studies...
...doctors said "wrong ideas" took hold of him. In 1810, he became so ill that he was incapacitated for the rest of his life, and his son, as Prince Regent, assumed the King's duties, George died at 81, one month after a turbulent attack during which he went 58 hours without sleep...
Died. Charlotte Armstrong, 64, grande dame of American suspense novelists; of cancer; in Glendale, Calif. Occasional poet, fashion reporter and playwright, Miss Armstrong turned mistress of the macabre with the 1942 publication of Lay On, Mac Duff; she went on to write more than a score of chillers, and in 1957 won the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Allan Poe Award for A Dram of Poison. "Maybe we are all potential murderers," she once said, "and reading stories about that crime releases us in some...
...cash and waiting for the market to hit a bottom. The slide has forced some brokers and bankers to make margin calls, and it is even pinching a number of big firms. As it scurried to raise new funds to meet New York Stock Exchange capital requirements, McDonnell & Co. went so far as to sell one of its three seats on the Big Board. The sale brought only $375,000, which represented a $140,000 drop in seat prices since April. Other Wall Street firms that have had capital difficulties include Nuveen and First Hanover Corp...