Word: clue
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pine Slats. For the eventual conviction of the elusive John, the book largely credits a brilliant, scholarly xylotomist named Arthur Koehler, whose principal job was analyzing the one unmistakable clue left by the kidnaper: a crude wooden ladder that had been used to reach the nursery window. Koehler proved that the Southern pine slats in the ladder could only have been honed in one factory in South Carolina with a defective pulley on the planer, then traced the boards further to a lumberyard in The Bronx...
...letters returned. So far, 56,000 that bore return addresses have been sent back unopened, and the committee will never know how much money it actually collected. The remaining letters have been sent to the dead letter office to be opened by postal employees. If the contents contain a clue to the sender, they will be returned. If not, unclaimed funds will go to the U.S. Treasury...
...alive." It is a spoof of everything from waltzing toreadors to Tennessee Williams; and like the characters of Williams' The Rose Tattoo, Kopit's people are named with florid symbolism-Madame Rosepettle, Rosalie, Commodore Roseabove, Rosalinda the Fish-but without even the simplest clue to the possible significance of all the roses. Yet the sum of all this is more than derivative lampoon and parody. Full of primary humor and insight, it is cohesively and originally a comic play...
...directed the fight with a quartermasterly eye for organization. The U.S. was divided into 80 zones, and dozens of Murchisonians were sent to canvass Alleghany shareholders in each area. An IBM computer kept a running count of the committed proxies; each scrap of paper that might offer a clue to the Murchison's strength or strategy was burned lest it fall into enemy hands. So zealous were Murchison solicitors that even after the final voting began at the Alleghany annual meeting in Baltimore, they were searching ashtrays for torn-up Kirby ballots that might give a lead...
...sounds soothing to the British and French. The Chinese are blunter. Marshal Chen demanded "a unified, independent" Laos and did not mention neutrality at all. Obviously, Chen was delighted to hang around indefinitely, flaunting China's power in an area where the West was in disarray. One possible clue was in the length of the lease he took on a fleet of 20 cars. Expiration date: November...