Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grey frame house in back of Christ Church lives a man whom some people call Father, others call Reverend, and most call just Red. This hearty and cheerful man is the Reverend Frederick B. Kellogg minister to students at Christ Church and a Princeton...
Passing out medals for bravery in the Mau Mau war last week, the British let the world know about a highly secret, highly successful operation performed by solitary white men infiltrating into the Mau Mau camps. The white volunteers (who call themselves the Pseudos) smear themselves black, wear tattered rags, and move in the company of a small group of former Mau Mau blacks...
...sportswriter who never covered anything more exciting than home-town boxing bouts for Texas' San Antonio News, young (29) Dan Cook nursed a Technicolored dream: to stop the presses for a Page One beat. One night last week-as he later told the story-an anonymous phone call promised the big chance. The caller tipped him to "the biggest robbery pulled since the Brink's job"-the theft of $200,000 from a safe in Houston, some 200 miles to the east. The voice even gave Cook the address and automobile license number of the robber...
...just in time to launch the most prodigious project of his prodigious career-a brand-new, 150-volume encyclopedia of the Roman Catholic faith. Few have heard of Henri Petiot, ex-schoolteacher. But under his pen name of Daniel-Rops, who in France has not? "Le Bestseller," they call him, and they read his books into record-breaking editions, go to his lectures by the hundreds, buy his magazines by the thousands...
...that's a hell of a note, thought Dr. Milton Krop, as he read it. The note was certainly not what he had expected to find when he made a routine call at the "Haunted House," a Victorian horror in Jackson Heights, on the Long Island reaches of New York City, where old Mrs. Folsom lived with her daughter. He stared at the bottle marked Poison that he clutched in one hand, and then at the terrified young woman whose wrist he held firmly in the other. The bottle, as the doctor had reason to know, contained a placebo...