Word: barrooms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...films a year ago, he thought up likely titles (e.g., Dragstrip Riot) and passed them on to producers, but the supply stayed short of Rhoden's demands. "Now I make the picture myself," he says. "I have two trucks, cameras and sound equipment. If I need a barroom scene I just rent a barroom...
Died. Elmer Francis ("Trigger") Burke, 40, scrawny gangland executioner, suspected of at least seven murders, convicted (Dec. 16, 1955) of one (his boyhood friend, Longshoreman Edward Walsh, in a 1952 barroom quarrel); by electrocution; in Sing Sing prison. Born in Manhattan's squalid Hell's Kitchen, Killer Burke served his first stretch in 1941 (for breaking and entering), soldiered with the U.S. Army Rangers in the Normandy invasion, afterwards settled down as a dock-front gunman, kept on a $300-per-month retainer by New York gangster brass. In 1954 Burke was hired to machine gun Joseph ("Specs...
...Marine Pfc. Adolph W. Merten took a blurry look at the barroom quintet and decided he saw four Japanese Communists all set to kill an American Army sergeant. Merten, a Korea veteran subject to "Bolshephobia" (i.e., seeing Red) when liquored up, fired five wavering revolver shots. Shiro Takawa, 19, no Communist but simply another patron in the Yokosuka bar, fell dying. When Merten went to trial before a Japanese court last week for manslaughter, his Japanese lawyer pulled out Article 39 of the Japanese criminal code, which holds that "an act by a person of unsound mind is not punishable...
...campaign entered its final week, the result looked almost too clear-cut to be true. The U.S. voter was far from apathetic, a fact reflected by record registration in many states. He seemed interested-but strangely quiet. There were remarkably few campaign buttons and stickers, remarkably few barroom arguments, remarkably few impassioned doorbell ringers. In the presidential race between Republican Dwight Eisenhower and Democrat Adlai Stevenson, the strange atmosphere of quiet wrapped up the Republicans' secret hopes for an unprecedented landslide; it held the Democrats' last hopes for upsetting the form charts. The quiet was, in fact, about...
...harboring the flea in the first place? Because a young sailor had given it to her-not intentionally, of course, but because he and Jill went to bed together, and (to put it briefly) "fleas hop." By the end of the story, poor Jill is lying prone on the barroom floor, overcome by shame, double gins, and the loss of her flea-giving lover...