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...Rome art dealer put them on the track. The dealer had been visited by a distinguished-looking stranger who said he had a miniature by Raphael which he would sell for only 2,000,000 lire ($3,200). Suspicious of the low price, the dealer put off the caller and called in the police. They set up a street-corner rendezvous, nabbed the distinguished-looking stranger...
Captain David Kerr, chief of Cleveland's homicide squad, set a close watch on WTAM's switchboard. On Wednesday, five days after the broadcast, an anonymous phone caller reported that Eddie was hiding out in a room in a house at 3619 East 74th Street. A detective and two policemen, sent to investigate, found Eddie, fully armed, hiding under a bed. They ordered him to come out, but he decided to blast his way out. The cops shot and killed Eddie Sadowski where...
...time war came, friendly, fresh-faced Newsman Fielder had moved on, was working on the Corpus Christi Caller-Times. He enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps as a private early in 1942, was soon commissioned and assigned to train officer candidates at Quantico, Va. Later, he was given command of a company of the sth Marine Division. Then the Marine Corps assigned Captain Fielder to perfect his Chinese at the University of California. When World War II ended, Fielder went back to his true calling, took a job as night city editor for the Associated Press in San Francisco, hoping...
...last Sunday, the telephone rang in the Forest Hills, N.Y. home of U.N. Secretary General Trygve Lie. The caller was Ambassador Ernest Gross, U.S. deputy representative to the United Nations. The U.S., said Gross, wanted Lie to call an emergency meeting of the Security Council to deal with the invasion of South Korea by Russian-backed North Korean troops. Burly Trygve Lie buckled down to action immediately, did not get back to bed that night...
...hard look down the barrel of a cannon. He vetoed the controversial basing point bill (see BUSINESS). He had waited until the tenth and last day, after which the bill would have become law without his signature. But he had intended all along to veto it, he told a caller. He felt like the blacksmith on the jury out in Missouri, said the President. The judge asked him if he felt any prejudice against the defendant. "Oh, no, judge," said the fellow. "I think we ought to give him a fair trial, then I think we ought to take...