Word: armed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thrill-Killer Prisoner 9306-D for 33 years, six months and two days walked nervously from Illinois' Stateville penitentiary one day last week. Trim in a prison-made blue suit, paroled Nathan Leopold Jr., 53, took the arm of Lawyer Elmer Gertz, pushed his way to five microphones set up on a nearby road, and over shouts and shutter clicks read a statement to 100-odd newsmen and photographers: "I beg, I beseech you ... to grant me a gift almost as precious as freedom itself-a gift without which freedom ceases to have much value-the gift of privacy...
...From the moment he ambled onstage with a dozen batons under his arm, Comic Danny Kaye, guest conductor of the New York Philharmonic for its Pension Fund Benefit, had Carnegie Hall patrons collapsing with guffaws. Unable to read music, Conductor Kaye directed some favorite classics surprisingly well, had audience and orchestra falling from their chairs by: 1) kissing two girl harpists and a bull fiddler; 2) parodying common conductorial techniques, i.e., "the coffee grinder" and "the meat chopper"; 3) arguing with his oboist over an A; 4) falling into the cellos during a crescendo. Said Kaye...
Some 2,800 of Kohler Co.'s 3,300 workers joined the strike, and for 54 days locked-arm mass picketing kept the plant shut down. Kohler placed ads in papers all over Wisconsin, offering new workers permanent jobs. Today, despite all the striker efforts to discourage workers with threats, name-calling, beatings and paint bombs, Kohler has some 2,500 employees at work...
Explaining graciously that business needs "a shot in the arm," Baltimore's Mayor Thomas D'Alesandro Jr. last month urged the city council to repeal Baltimore's tax on newspaper and TV advertising (TIME, Nov. 18), which Mayor Tommy had himself rammed through last fall. Last week, while the council mulled over the mayor's proposal (which would also give a shot in the arm to Democrat D'Alesandro's campaign for the U.S. Senate), Maryland's general assembly beat Tommy to the gun by passing a Senate-approved bill outlawing ad taxes...
...Partridge in a Pear Tree. In Leeds, England, police were trying to locate Jail Escapee Terence Cutts, 29, who has a flag and an eagle tattooed on his left arm, a heart, a woman's figure and the names "Rose" and "Ruth" on his right arm, a flag and an anchor on the back of his right hand, bluebirds on both thumbs...