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Dates: during 1950-1950
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Oct. 24)--A sunken-eyed zombie, burned for wizardry and dead for 76 years, is our hottest lead to date. He prognosticates hurricanes and mango blights in the thick voodoo country northeast of here...
Since December, District Attorney Miles McDonald had been plugging a Brooklyn grand jury in on some of the hottest party lines of big-time New York gambling. From his wire-tap leads and blitz raids, McDonald served up firsthand evidence that New York City cops had been taking a million dollars a year in bribes from one Brooklyn bookie alone...
...Season. In Sheridan, Wyo., residents who turned up at the municipal swimming pool on the hottest day of the year (100° at midday) were greeted by a notice reading "Closed for the Winter...
...hottest days of the summer, a parade of about 5,000-military and naval units, city employees, policemen, firemen and seven bands under limp silk flags-marched up Broadway. In front of City Hall, party bosses, military commanders, the consuls of some 50 foreign nations, City Council President Vincent Impellitteri, the mayor's pretty wife in an aqua velveteen hat, and Bill O'Dwyer arrayed themselves on a hastily constructed platform. Seven policemen and an octogenarian deputy fire commissioner collapsed in the heat. O'Dwyer presented Grover Whalen with a $450 gold medal for "extraordinary public service...
...games separated the field this week. But Detroit fans, whose team had lost eight of its last 15 games, had to admit that their entry was beginning to look a little winded. Cleveland, smarting under four straight defeats by the Yankees, was falling behind the pace, too. The two hottest teams in the league were the hard-hitting (team batting average: .307) Boston Red Sox, in 3rd place after winning twelve of their last fourteen games, and the Yankees...