Word: brentford
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...strong task force of bobbies and detectives who are engaged in one of the biggest murder hunts in London's history. It started last week when the nude strangled body of brunette Helen Barthelemy, a stripper turned tart, was found in an alley close to the Thames at Brentford, miles from her Bayswater beat. She was the fourth prostitute to be killed since last November...
...simple but ingenious scheme for raising money: Hume planned to rob a bank close to the international airport and then return to the Continent on a commercial plane for which he had made a reservation. Hume chose a branch of the Midland Bank in a quiet side street in Brentford, outside London. He shot down a bank clerk, scooped up some $3,000, and was in an airplane and winging his way over the Channel before Scotland Yard had a physical description of the robber. Three months later he duplicated the crime, seriously wounded a British bank manager...
Britain's Sir Jocelyn Lucas, Tory M.P. for Brentford and Chiswick and part-time dog breeder, received an order for one of his female Sealyhams from a satisfied customer in Moscow who already has a male one: Soviet Propagandist Ilya Ehrenburg...
...contemporary wags have added that British workingmen would stop a revolution for a soccer Cup Final. As the soccer season last week reached a point something like the Fourth of July in U. S. baseball, discussions in pubs and clubs rose to a fine pitch of excitement. Although Brentford, a London club, was leading the First Division, with 14 wins and seven draws for a total of 35 points,† another London club, Arsenal, was widely fancied to end the season...
...legs, though obviously male, had been femininely peroxided and powdered. Suspicion has been strong that the murdered man had been living with some other man who eventually slew him when threatened with blackmail. Last week Pathologist Spilsbury did much to dash this theory by discovering on the male Brentford Torso three long strands of hair unquestionably female. At the coroner's inquest, Sir Bernard, close-lipped as usual, dropped a quiet hint that he now believes the Waterloo-Brentford man, pieced together by his freckles last week, was murdered by a woman. Not a mystery of Spilsbury calibre...