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...breathless heat, Chicago seemed to ache for the relief of violence. On a throbbing night, Detective Bill Murphy spotted Dickie Carpenter, 26, wanted for banditry, on a subway platform. When the policeman tried to arrest the thug, Carpenter killed Murphy with a .38 he packed under his loose sport shirt, fled on the crepe-soled shoes with which he had padded through more than 60 north and northwest side robberies since...
...once or twice during the last few weeks as the Yugoslav seemed dangerously near to falling from his wire on one side or the other. But the very day that Khrushchev and Bulganin arrived in Belgrade, a U.S. Senate committee approved a $40.5 million grant to Tito. That was breathless balancing indeed. Last week he performed even more daringly...
Confidential's small staff works under Editor Howard Rushmore, onetime Communist who was fired as a Hearst reporter (TIME, Nov. 1), partly for contributing in his spare time to Confidential. The editors write Confidential's articles in breezy, breathless tabloid prose, always promising more than they give ("This article will shock you"). One of the best descriptions of the kind of reporting in Confidential and its imitators came from one of the imitators, Top Secret. Said Top Secret: "How cunningly the smear is constructed. It says nothing with finality. It doesn't come right out and claim...
...four breathless days in London, the mayor chatted with the Duke of Edinburgh, invited Princess Margaret to New York "any time she pleases," toured the Houses of Parliament, boated on the Thames and dined at the Fishmongers' Hall. A rainstorm delayed the Wagners on their way to another dinner party at the U.S. embassy, kept Ambassador Winthrop Aldrich and the other dinner guests dawdling over their cocktails for a full hour. Wagner was on time for his visit with Queen Mother Elizabeth, however, and reported that the Queen "told me I could smoke, and reminded me that I smoked...
...bided his time. He switched and changed his oarsmen; he brought up a new coxswain, and he watched his men round into condition. Their stroke lengthened with power. The rhythm that puts a long, swift run on the boat became second nature. Last week, as a hot (90°), breathless haze flattened the dead waters of New York's Onondaga Lake for the 53rd Intercollegiate Rowing Association Regatta, Cornell was ready...