Word: pranking
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Died. Philip Benjamin Perlman, 70, Maryland lawyer, newspaperman (onetime Baltimore Evening Sun city editor and prank-playing crony of H. L. Mencken) and Democratic politician, who from 1947 to 1952 as workhorse Solicitor General of the U.S. personally won an unprecedented 49 cases before the Supreme Court but lost his most famous one, defense of President Truman's 1952 seizure of the steel industry; of heart disease; in Washington. An energetic fighter for civil rights. Perlman was co-chairman of the Platform Committee at last month's Democratic Convention...
Ritchie, director of "Oh Dad, Poor Dad," described the events this way: Returning from a cast party at 4:30 a.m., he discovered a four-foot pile of crumpled newspapers outside his door. Dismissing it as a prank, he entered his room and prepared to retire when the smell of smoke began to permeate the room...