Word: carly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would ask for the head of the family (or perhaps a grown son). All they would say in answer to questions was that the man was to come with them and that he should bring warm clothes. Before they left they would take the license and papers of his car, and they would type a sample of his typewriter...
...night Turkish police watch the massive, drafty Soviet embassy in Ankara and the consulate general in Istanbul. Russian cars are trailed relentlessly. (Sometimes four or five Russians will dash out, separate, pile into different automobiles before the one or two Turkish police can figure out which car to follow.) Counter-espionage is big business here. From the time any foreigner, from private citizen to ambassador, enters the country, his movements are known. A vast army of full-time and part-time informers keeps Turkish intelligence posted on who goes where, who meets whom, who said what. Turkey's jittery...
Thirty-six hours later, Presbrey was passing Minneapolis' Sheridan Hotel when a 90-mile-an-hour gale knocked a 65-ft. chimney onto the hotel, injuring four people. Grabbing the Speed Graphic he always carries in his car ("Photographers are never around when you need them"), Reporter Presbrey was shooting pictures when the ambulances arrived...
...excitement started when Inspector William Trodden and Lieutenant Joseph B. Breen noticed a car proceeding up Quincy Street in the wrong direction...
...car stopped and two men dashed into the H.A.A. office before Trodden and Breen could reach their vehicle. When the two men came out of the office again, the detectives asked them for their driving licenses...