Word: murdered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...both sides preened himself on his lack of emotion, took pride in his own hardheaded, coldly practical viewpoint. All the tears shed for Britain could have been collected in an eyedropper; all the hate for Hitler couldn't have been compressed into enough arsenic to furnish a murder mystery. The Congress tried in its own way to keep its head on straight. Franklin Roosevelt had taken the "silly, foolish dollar sign" off aid-to-Britain. Congress put the dollar sign back on in jig-time, and tried vainly to add on a few cent-marks...
Since C. I. O.'s United Automobile Workers still hope to force Henry Ford to recognize them as a bargaining agency for Fordmen, U. A. W. yelled bloody murder when Ford got a $122,000,000 order for making Pratt & Whitney aircraft engines, gave a Bronx cheer to unofficial Army explanations that Ford was best qualified to make the engines and that the engines were needed. The Defense Commission's ClOman Sidney Hillman put in his protest when Ford got another order: $2,000,000 worth of midget combat trucks to replace the Army's motorcycles...
...mysterious disappearance to assume (on no grounds) his guilt. He seeks him out and, in a state of mind half parlor-game, half maniacal sincerity, woos him as a "Master," a "Dark Angel," the modest herald of Rimbaud's "heyday of assassination." He drives the tricky, mousy little murderer nearly witless with hypnosis and fear. Inevitably too, he is no more enmeshing than enmeshed. In rage and shame as an amateur, a rejected disciple, he is drawn at length into a botched attempt at sexual murder...
...MURDER OUT OF TURN-Frances & Richard Lockrldge-Stokes ($2). Pam & Jerry North entertain Bill Weigand of the New York police at their summer-colony cabin. A nice young girl and her cabin go up in flames. The whimsical Norths stand up nobly under liquor, kerosene, no sleep...
DIAGNOSIS: MURDER - Rufus King Crime Club ($2). Seven stories (one long) presenting Dr. Colin Starr, snappy young medico-criminologist. Starting from a gazebo hanging over Laurel Falls, Dr. Starr cleverly psychs his way about Ohio to the benefit of society at large...