Word: caroling
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...doctor rose. His wife's body lay on the living-room pulldown bed. Open on a nearby chair was a mystery novel entitled Dead Sure. His daughter Carol lay dead in her crib. The doctor walked into the bathroom, picked up a rifle and shot himself through the heart...
...Born. To Carol Charming, 32, doll-eyed musicomedienne who rocked Broadway as the dimwitted gold digger in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and Alexander Carson, 29, former private eye and now pro-football center (Ottawa Rough Riders): their first child, a son; in Manhattan. Name: Channing. Weight...
...them murderers, the third a swindler-take the visitors on. All three badmen have sunny natures, warm hearts, clever hands, sleepless brains; all three are passionate believers in the robinhood of man. Possessing every criminal art and penal grace, they set matters aright in a Gallic Christmas Carol where it is simpler to bump Scrooge off than to convert...
Stunned, Kaufman tried to explain that he had not been "wittingly antireligious. I was merely speaking out against the use and overuse of this Christmas carol in connection with the sale of commercial products." He soon got impressive religious support: the Rev. Dr. Truman B. Douglass, chairman of the broadcasting and film department of the National Council of Churches, declared that Kaufman's remark was "more expressive of religious sensitiveness than of any spirit of derision." Furthermore, said Dr. Douglass, "the real sacrilege is the merciless repetition of Silent Night and similar Christmas hymns by crooners, hillbillies, dance bands...
...tradition of the steel industry, the Fairless Works' first furnaces were given feminine names-"Nancy" and "Carol" for the granddaughters and "Hazel" for Ben Fairless' wife. Explained Fairless: "A blast furnace is always known as a lady and is named for one-not be cause the furnace is a thing of shapely beauty, exactly, but because it is inclined, at best, to be somewhat temperamental...