Word: topeka
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thrilled I didn't really know what I was buying!" exclaimed a fluttery shopper after leaving a dress shop in Topeka, Kans. She had just been waited on by the newest of the store's dozen saleswomen: temporarily retired Cinemactress Gene Tierney, 38, off and on for several years a voluntary patient in private mental hospitals. Now an outpatient in Topeka's famed Menninger Clinic, where she spent eight months last year' Gene would not discuss her courageous venture in occupational therapy. But her boss allowed: "She's doing a beautiful job. And she certainly...
...next Man of the Year can be none other than Richard Nixon, just as our next President must be none other than Nixon. VAL BRAUN Topeka, Kans...
SHERMAN J. OYLER JR. Topeka, Kans...
Just Peanuts. Trained as a lawyer (Washburn College in Topeka), Garvey gave up law practice in three years, was soon building a 100,000-acre wheat 'and cattle empire. In 1947 he became the world's No. i grower with a crop of close to 1,000,000 bushels. As any U.S. taxpayer should know, wheat is one of the basic commodities supported by the federal farm program-and in the last four years Garvey has received $791,488 in support loans for wheat he raised, plus $405,647 in cash from the federal soil bank program...
...Psychiatrist Satten and his Topeka research team, it seemed that the murderous petty officer-listed in their records as "Thomas"-had temporarily and partially lost consciousness and suffered a kind of personality detachment. This jibed with Thomas' own statement: "I knew I was doing it, but it didn't seem like me. It was like watching myself doing it." In three other cases of sudden and apparently motiveless murder, the Topeka researchers got the same story of men blacking out and then seeming to be spectators at their own crimes...