Word: copse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Game Preserve. In Cleveland, cops surprised 40 men playing cards in an 8-by-10 ft. room, bagged two packs of cards and the 17 gamblers who couldn't squeeze past the door or dive through the window, later released their catch on insufficient evidence after they examined the...
"Win in 1958." While the cannon boomed, and Del Sesto supporters angrily stormed out of the Statehouse growling "robbery" and "dictatorship," smiling Denny Roberts took his oath, in his own private office, surrounded by cops, state troopers, newsmen and henchmen. There was no inaugural address-just a Roberts' statement...
"Nobody believes me!" sobbed Hollywood's foremost nonacting Cinemactress Marie ("The Body") McDonald. To tell the truth, few did. Marie's hair-greying tale-of being kidnaped, doped, raped and tossed into the California desert night-was as hard to believe as if it had all happened to...
Home Flown. In Milwaukee, caught robbing a beer depot because he wanted to give his family "a nice Christmas" after cops had sought him for 16 months, Jail Escapee Richard Heinz admitted that he hid out for the entire time in his wife's apartment, left only in the...
Road Show. In Miami, when cops questioned Willie Cooper after they found him wearing four shirts, four pairs of pants, a sweater, two denim jackets, an overcoat, gloves and three hats jammed on top of each other, he offered a ready explanation: "I travel quite a bit and don'...