Word: cops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Married. Martha Raye, 42, singing comedienne; and Robert O'Shea, 31, Manhattan private eye, former Westport (Conn.) cop whose first wife filed an alienation-of-affections suit against Martha Raye; she for the sixth time, he for the second; by the mayor of Teaneck, N.J., in the mayor's living room...
...never-defeated Republican Incumbent J. Glenn Beall, 64. D'Alesandro got off to an early lead in the Baltimore returns, but despite the overwhelming victory of Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate J. Millard Tawes, Beall (rhymes with well) ran far enough ahead of D'Alesandro in the counties to cop the victory...
...shooting was Chicago-style, but the setting was Moscow. A cop surprised four masked burglars trying to break into a store. There was a burst of gunfire, and the four leaped into a taxi and fled, leaving the policeman dying from seven bullet wounds. Eyewitnesses provided one useful clue: the gunmen wore the narrow trousers, oversized jackets and ducktail haircuts of stilyagi, the Russian version of zoot-suiters...
...letters refer to various affairs, and the writings of the last year especially are filled with allusions to a particular unnamed girl. On one occasion he wrote: "Last night I was caught in the Harvard Yard with a girl... doing the worst I could. The yard-cop was fat and portentious. `Mister,' says he, breathing heavily through his mouth, `this has got to stop...
WHEN a big, secluded estate is rented by an eccentric couple who order beef by the side, buns by the gross-and when the delivery boy has to leave the supplies outside the fence -people are apt to be curious. For what a Buenos Aires cop discovered when he climbed the fence, see THE HEMISPHERE, Big Red Schoolhouse...