Word: basement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Police described the killing as a well-planned, professional job. They found evidence that Touhy had been under surveillance from a basement in an apartment house across the street almost from the day he was released. His movements and habits were well known by his killers. "I don't know exactly who did it, but I do know the Chicago mob was behind it," a shaken Ray Brennan told the coroner. "There are some other people you can bring here. Touhy had three enemies and he talked about them often. He regarded [ex-Cop Tubbo] Gilbert as his worst...
...second-floor news room, Roberts deposits his 218 Ibs. in the corner he has occupied off and on since 1928. But soon he is up again and leaning over the news desk. "Anything big?" he asks, a question he repeats before every edition. By early afternoon, the basement presses roll out a newspaper that in Cowgill, Humansville, Farmersville, Fair Play, Peculiar, Knob Noster, Kansas City, and several hundred other Missouri-Kansas communities is familiar, reassuring-and powerful...
...Complicated Canon. Hedley is known at Mills as a courtly, gentle man with a lively interest in a number of things, from electric trains (five in the basement) and cats (there were once 17) to archaeology and tennis. He speaks half a dozen languages and is a prolific writer of books (eleven), sermons and speeches. Says former Mills President Lynn White: "He can turn out 24 clean limericks an hour." Says another colleague: "George Hedley can call more bishops and baseball players by their first names than anyone else I know. He is like St. Paul in meeting people where...
...made available to the "Y" parts of the gymnasium building on Everett Street which Harvard took over from Sargent College three years ago. The facilities include a fourth floor gymnasium, a game room on the same floor, and a locker room, showers, and a craft room in the basement...
...other foreign publication. It is considered required reading on Wall Street and Capitol Hill; the Central Intelligence Agency alone gets 200 air-expressed copies weekly. Few statesmen pass up Economist invitations to lunch in the Honky-Tonk, the staff's irreverent name for the restaurant in the basement of the Economist's London headquarters on Ryder Street...