Word: killer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Divorced. Mickey Rooney, 27, Hollywood's Hardy family perennial now grown to he-man's estate (Killer McCoy); by wife No. 2, Betty Jane Rase Rooney, 21, whom he married when he was a private and she "Miss Birmingham"; after three years and eight months of marriage, two children; in Los Angeles. Settlement: $100,000 over ten years, $25,000 for a new house, $5,000 a year for the children...
...first reaction to the shock had been fear that his two children might see his bleeding body sprawled on the kitchen floor. "Thank God they didn't," he said. He was convinced that he had been the victim of a professional killer...
...public should put more of its money into research into chronic diseases, which make old age miserable. The U.S., says Dr. Crampton, has been spending $22 per death for cancer research, $13,000 per death for infantile paralysis, and only a few cents per victim for the most common killer of all, diseases of the heart and arteries...
...many new facts had come to light about Gaitan's death. On the killer's battered body were found the identification papers of a 25-year-old religious fanatic named Juan Roa Sierra, but there was serious doubt that they were the dead man's own papers. Everybody agreed that the Communists had had a hand-right up to the elbow-in the affair. Secretary Marshall had denounced "the same definite pattern which provoked strikes in Italy and France and is endeavoring to prejudice the situation in Italy's elections." In Washington, the Central Intelligence Agency...
...keep Sleuth Milland precisely equidistant from himself and the killer takes the kind of nerveless skill required to shave two men with one stroke of a two-edged razor-and produces the same excruciating suspense. Author Fearing's book pulled off the trick very neatly, but Scenarist Jonathan Latimer and Director John Farrow have done an even better job of it in the movie...