Word: copse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Scene VII: Private Room H. By next day, everything was organized. All tickets to the Stadium were checked not once, by ushers, but twice, by Ed Kelly's blue-shirted cops. Clusters of tieless war workers, carrying clusters of Wallace placards, were turned away. They just did not seem...
Back from John Touhy's, led by a flying wedge of cops, came Illinois. Breathing heavily, Ed Kelly grabbed the microphone, shouted out: "Illinois now 54 for Truman, four for Wallace." He turned to a henchman: "Did we make it?" He had not. It was all over. Running fast...
Heads Up. In Brooklyn, Joseph Roteno, sprinkling the flowers in his second-floor window box, splashed a few drops on the protruding pate of first-floor neighbor Carmino Peravello, who charged up the stairs and nicked neighbor Roteno with an ax before the cops came.
Cops behind the Bars. For the last ten years, slim, personable Clayton Fritchey's by-line has accompanied exposes and campaigns that have kept the Cleveland Press (circ. 253,540) the liveliest and one of the richest and most influential of Scripps-Howard papers.** Fritchey has been a managing...
Questioning hundreds of victims, Fritchey came across the name of a sucker named "Dacek" who had sunk $83,000 in 4,400 grave sites. Fritchey's hunch: that "Dacek" was Louis J. Cadek, a big-bellied, mysteriously prosperous police captain. Working with Cleveland prosecutors, Fritchey traced to Captain Cadek...