Word: belmonte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Everybody Is Sick." Starkweather's battle started at the one-story frame house in Lincoln's rundown Belmont section, where Caril lived with her mother, stepfather and two-year-old half sister. For several days relatives noticed an unnatural stillness around the house; twice they came to find out why. Caril turned them away at the door, reported the family ill. Detectives called to investigate, found no one home, a note on the door: "Stay away. Everybody is sick with the flu. Miss Bartlett." Still concerned, the family came back. A search turned up not sickness but murder...
...anyone who has elbowed through the early morning on Mott St., this crisis signals the end of one of New York's most colorful institutions. On Hester and Thompson Streets, Belmont Avenue and Prospect Place the cries of hawkers competed with the horns of frustrated motorists, tomatoes and fishtails decorated the curbs, and the hand-scale reign undisputed. In the hot days of July ices-and-syrup went at a nickel a cup to kids tossing a Spaulding above heads too busy to notice them, and in December the chestnut men huddled in doorways while their cookers sent up thin...
Schools accepting invitations include: Belmont Hill, Lowell High, Milton Academy, Moses Brown, Newton High...
...better shooters on the squad is Greg Loser, a 5 ft. 11 in. back-courtman from Belmont, Mass. Loser, a probable starter at guard, has a variety of shots from the outside including a patented, springing, jump-shot. Perhaps the best marksman on the squad is 6 ft. 2 in. Bill Richling, from St. Albans, N.Y. Richling, who will start at one of the guards, is a co-alumnus of Andrew Jackson High along with the Celtics' Bob Cousy. The slender Richling jump-shoots, scores on driving layups and rebounds well from his backcourt position...
...performance was no surprise to anyone−not to the chalk players who had watched Neji win Belmont's Grand National just the week before, nor to Alfred Patrick Smithwick, who is the chestnut champion's pilot, nor to his brother Daniel Michael Smithwick, who nursed Neji into shape for the race of his life. These days the only steeplechase surprise is when a horse handled by Pat and Mike Smithwick is shut out of a big purse...