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Real Trouble. Only two days after Jenkins' arrest, anonymous tipsters began advising newspapers that there was an interesting item on the Oct. 7 blotter of the morals squad. The tips were widely dispersed: a man from Pravda even showed up for a peek. At least one of the tips was traced to the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee, and the Republican National Committee was known to be on to the story. Delaware's Republican Senator John J. Williams said he heard of the case several days before it got into print...
...From Blotter to Front Page. MOLESTER OF CHILDREN STALKS S.F., headlined the Examiner, resurrecting-and inflating-the case of a man who had been following, but not molesting, schoolchildren in the city's Sunset district since...
...suffered minor injuries, "rolled on last night, and police continued to press their beefed-up counter-campaign." The Chronicle started an April Aaron Fund; the News-Call Bulletin offered $500 for her attacker's arrest. The Examiner, scrabbling frantically for new crime-wave evidence, picked up a police-blotter report about a purse-snatching sailor and triumphantly blew it onto Page...
...into a slugging, furniture-throwing fight. Finally Raffa grabbed a pistol and shot Marino three times in the chest. Marino died on the way to the hospital, and soon afterward, Raffa surrendered to the police. Perplexed as to how to enter Marino's death on the police blotter, Reggio Calabria's cops finally settled on the notation: "Killed in a dispute over the final payment on his wife...
...advisers, John F. Kennedy walked briskly into his oval office to meet waiting reporters. Rarely had they seen him so grim, so abrupt. "Just wait a moment," he said. "Just stop taking pictures for a minute." Then Kennedy laid two heavily edited pieces of paper on the green blotter before him and began to read...