Word: wretchedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Yugoslav Communist, now in a Tito prison, decides after a lifetime of Marx worship that the commissars have done a wretched job, run prison camps instead of states and are far more greedy materialists than the capitalists. Certainly nothing new, but significant coming from Tito's ex-buddy.
To ballyhoo the first birthday of his Oscar-smothered epic movie Around the World in 80 Days, Showman Mike Todd held "a little private party" in Manhattan's ballooned and festooned Madison Square Garden. On the promise of a mighty spectacle plus food, champagne and free gifts (from Japanese...
Comedy or Truth? Gogol was a weedy little fellow with a tapir-like nose who was known at school as the "mysterious dwarf." His "spoilt and corrupt character" emerges like a combination of half a dozen case histories in abnormal psychology. He disliked making love to women, avoided his mother...
¶ It took Heavyweight Champion Floyd Patterson less than three minutes to convince every fight fan in the Polo Grounds that his match with Tommy ("Hurricane") Jackson was a wretched mismatch. A pathetic primitive with an awesome capacity for absorbing punishment, Hurricane started leaking blood in the first round and...
"Hello, Love." Leslie Hubble, who has been married 31 years (no children), runs the papers' far-flung readers' service from London's Kemsley House, where his musty office is decorated with postcard trophies of his favorite off-duty pastime-visiting cathedrals. The antithesis of hooch-soaked Miss...