Word: murdering
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...PARENTS OF A 4½-YEAR-OLD SON MY WIFE (FAY GILLIS) AND I CONSIDER YOUR NOV. 27 COVER UTTERLY AND ABSOLUTELY BEYOND THE PALE. NEVER HAVE WE SEEN A MORE INVITING INVITATION TO MURDER BY OUR CHILDREN. IN OUR HOME HOPALONG CASSIDY IS 100% VERBOTEN FOR THAT REASON . . . WE BELIEVE YOU SHOULD NOT ENCOURAGE OUR CHILDREN TO USE GUNS EXCEPT IN THE DEFENSE OF OUR COUNTRY...
...Your giving currency to Walter Winchell's unfounded statement that "Harvard has a murder on its hands," and to the charge that "somebody was responsible for the death" of Jeremiah Brickman, 2L, (11/16/50...
...André (The Counterfeiters) Gide, 81, motored to the Comédie Française to sit in a red velvet seat and mastermind every rehearsal of the first stage adaptation of one of his novels, Lafcadio's Adventures, written 36 years ago. A satire about a motiveless murder, the play is due to open next week...
...Governor Thomas E. Dewey-who had vetoed a legislative bill aimed at weeding out railroad engineers with bad safety records-called on the bankrupt line's two court-appointed trustees to resign. They stolidly refused. A wave of vehement indignation swept New York. Newspapers baldly used the word "murder" in editorials (see PRESS), and millions of shocked and frightened citizens cried, "Now they'll HAVE to do something...
...Still at large in New Zealand last week was Convict Cecil Gurr Otto who also escaped duress by walking out of a hospital. Two years ago Otto had murdered a woman, and in remorse tried to commit suicide. He succeeded only in blowing half his face away. Sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder, Otto was sent to a hospital near Christchurch for plastic surgery. Authorities put him on his honor not to escape. Last fortnight, equipped with new, nearly healed features, he simply walked out of the hospital. New Zealand police admitted that recapture would be difficult. The only...