Word: belled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Doves. Last week, on the second anniversary of The Bomb, the people of Hiroshima stood with bared heads bowed around a 43-ft. peace tower to hear a specially cast bell toll for Hiroshima's dead. Muffled sobs stopped when giant firecrackers began to slam like .50-caliber machine guns. Tiny parachutes bore peace festival streamers above the crowd. Thereafter, Hiroshima observed its day of disaster with singing, dancing and boating. Boys & girls pulled peace floats through unshaded streets...
Five years later, a full-fledged priest, he returned with his family to Dallas, moved next door to the cathedral. But he could not sleep. Every night someone stole into the cathedral and started tolling the bell. One night, Father Swartsfager hid a baseball bat under his cassock, waited to ambush the bell-ringer. Soon, a tall boy crept out of the shadows. The priest grabbed...
Cowards & Coyotes. Terrified, the boy confessed that he rang the bell as a signal for his gang's nightly "operations"-burglary, smashing windows, bombing. Father Swartsfager ordered him to summon his gang. When the boys showed up, one by one, he started preaching. He called them cowards and coyotes, threatened to pin their ears back. The boys listened aghast. Soon, they were confessing their crimes. They led him to their hideout, turned over lead pipes, brass knuckles, revolvers. On the spot, Father Swartsfager organized the Gremlin Club ("I'll teach you to be real tough guys-mentally, physically...
...nice," says Bell, "if you can stand the disgrace. I am the shame of Hackensack. My poor father can't go out of the house without being taunted about the three more people his son just murdered...
...Bell can't figure out where he learned about the criminal mind. He never met a fingerman in his life, never reads mystery stories, spends his few off hours quietly at home with his wife, radio-&-cinemactress Pert Kelton, and their two children. "I figure I just have a talent for murder," he says. "Whenever I gotta mess a guy. up on the air, I just think of some s.o.b. that insulted me the other day, and then I grind my teeth and do what the script says just as if I was doing...