Word: calman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sturgis, Ky. (pop. 2,222), which also saw trouble last year, Publisher Bud Calman of the News reported: "I've been up and down the street these last three days trying to appraise our situation, and I haven't heard one word which would indicate trouble." Said a school official in nearby Clay: "I don't believe we'll have any trouble-but you never can tell...
...dark, squally afternoon of April 3, 1950, three ex-convicts shot and killed a messenger carrying $4,960 (along with more than $35,000 in non-negotiable checks) from the Reader's Digest offices near Pleasantville, N.Y. Two months later the killers were arrested. Tried and convicted were Calman Cooper, a paroled bandit, Harry Stein, a sullen thug, and Nathan Wissner, a habitual criminal. They were sentenced to die the week of Feb. 11, 1951-but justice was not to come so quickly...