Word: carr
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Moving over into the running events, the dash men are strong and improving. Frank Coolidge seems to hold the edge here, but Fred Carr and Joe Moore are coming, and may press him later. In the hurdle events, Wes Flint, another Noble and Greenough graduate, has a strangle hold on the top position. He is very fast and has good form; Jaako calls him "very good." Following him over the timber are two beginners, Al Houghton and George Earley. Houghton is pretty fair, but Earley is stiff, and must loosen up. In the low hurdles, Ted Withingham, Exeter alumnus...
DEATH TURNS THE TABLES-John Dickson Carr-Harper ($2). A capital battle of wits between gruff old Dr. Fell and a nimble adversary over who killed the rapscallion fiancé of an English jurist's daughter. Doesn't quite come off, but good reading for those who like the puzzle type of story...
...Carr decided this week to throw herself on the mercy of the court, instead of standing trial. Said she: "I don't want . . . those women at the church ... to come . . . and look down their noses...
...Carr had faced her accusers calmly, had parried questions in a hurt, gentle voice-until she was told that one victim of her alleged flimflamming had informed on her. Then came the giveaway. From her lips exploded strange, unladylike, un-churchly words of the underworld: "Oh, a canary...
...week's end a gruesome note was added to the Carr case, when the body of 67-year-old Anthony Ambrose, onetime gardener at the Carrs', was found floating in the nearby Passaic River...