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Captain David Kerr, chief of Cleveland's homicide squad, set a close watch on WTAM's switchboard. On Wednesday, five days after the broadcast, an anonymous phone caller reported that Eddie was hiding out in a room in a house at 3619 East 74th Street. A detective and two policemen, sent to investigate, found Eddie, fully armed, hiding under a bed. They ordered him to come out, but he decided to blast his way out. The cops shot and killed Eddie Sadowski where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Wanted | 8/7/1950 | See Source »

...days of rain had made an "off track" certain for the 74th running of Pimlico's Preakness last week. That suited Trainer Casey Hayes fine; his Hill Prince, runner-up to Middleground in the Kentucky Derby, revels in gooey going. Middleground's trainer, canny Max Hirsch, was not so happy: "My horse is very definitely suited to a fast track. I believe he can run in sticky going, but I am not sure." With an eye on the weather, Hirsch waited until the morning of the race to have his horse shod with mud caulks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Prince of the Preakness | 5/29/1950 | See Source »

...month ago, a short, scholarly-looking man named Jack Lewis rented a shabby basement apartment on Manhattan's West 74th St. He and his wife were a quiet couple who had few callers and got no mail except for one lone postcard. It was from "Joe" in Haiti and said only, "Having a swell time." Lewis told the landlord that he was a statistical engineer, that he was gathering material for a book on mathematics. Henna-haired Mrs. Lewis, 42, never spoke to the neighbors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: THE DOMINION: What Made Sam Run | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

Winston Churchill had a busy week. Three days before his 74th birthday, he donned jodhpurs, fortified himself with rum punch and galloped off to the hounds astride a borrowed horse. Churchill's inevitable, square-crowned Russell hat was jammed well down on his head, his equally inevitable cigar clenched firmly between his teeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Cassandra Returns | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

...than six decades the little (pop. 791) Iowa town of West Branch has listened to old Newt Butler tell the same story-how he licked Herbie Hoover in a scrap at the swimming hole. Last week, as ex-President Herbert Clark Hoover returned to West Branch to celebrate his 74th birthday, Newt reminded his old schoolmate of the bout. Hoover just grinned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IOWA: Not a Dream | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

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