Word: copse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Only since 13% of homes are have been built since 1939 the rest are decaying and dilapidated. Nearly 30% of the chil dren are from broken homes; their drop out rate is 2.2 times the city's average, and prison parolees, prostitutes, narcotics addicts and drunks live among them...
He was therefore enraged when town and county cops turned their backs while whites beat and otherwise harassed civil rights marchers in Bogalusa a couple of weeks ago. Christenberry cited Bogalusa's Public Safety Commissioner Arnold Spiers, Police Chief Claxton Knight, and Patrolman Donald Penton for civil contempt of...
In the first chapter of an intricate crime story that might be entitled Murph the Surf, His Yeggs and All That Unfenceable Swag, a band of thieves slipped into New York City's American Museum of Natural History and footpadded out with 24 gems, including the priceless Star of...
The new job will be something of a change of pace for Chancellor, who has always preferred active reporting to desk work. He quit the University of Illinois in his junior year to go to work for the Chicago Sun-Times, later covered robberies, fires, riots for NBC news in...
Now assistant managing editor of Hearst's New York Journal-American, James D. Horan has spent much of his 35-year newspaper career as an investigative reporter or "digger." In this labyrinthine novel, he describes the city's seamy side vividly, if repetitiously: the sticky-fingered cops who...