Word: copse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The cops first told Clifford Shephard that he was "the phantom forger" the day after they fingerprinted and mugged him. A slow-moving, heavy-jawed and trusting fellow, Shephard patiently smiled at their accusations, told them they'd find they were making a mistake. He was just a middle...
Shephard's smile dissolved when a liquor dealer gave him one curled-lip glance in the New Brunswick, NJ. police station and told the cops, "That's the guy." A dozen other merchants nodded their heads positively. The detectives brought in Betty Lester, the buxom widow he had...
But the courtroom atmosphere was festive rather than grim. In marked contrast with the duchess' last trial (at which she was sentenced to a year in jail-TIME, Jan. 10, 1949), there were no Tommy-gun-toting guards, no uniformed cops. The presiding judge was affable, dapper Major General...
Once the race got underway, tempers flared. Motorcycle cops patrolled the course, broke up fist fights among rivals who crashed into each other. Nineteen drivers suffered slight injuries. Two youngsters craftily painted the same number on two cars, with the intention of letting one take over from the other at...
The murder in May 1949 of Willie Lurye, an International Ladies' Garment Workers Union organizer, was a sensational news story. Shortly after he was stabbed to death in a telephone booth in Manhattan's garment center, the union posted a $25,000 reward for the capture of his...