Word: copse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Miraculously, out of the flaming carnage a boy was hurled to a soft landing in a snow bank. He was eleven-year-old Stephen Baltz of Wilmette, Ill., traveling alone to meet his mother and sister in New York. Two cops rushed to him, wrapped their coats about his flaming...
When Leland Hayward and his third wife, Slim, were divorced last May, part of the settlement involved territorial rights in New York nightclubs, to avoid embarrassing encounters. Hayward, for example, was assigned one side of El Morocco, while Slim got the other side and the Champagne Room, too. Very few...
All he wanted was a sandwich and a cup of tea while his bus made a brief stop in Richmond, Va. But Bruce Boynton, a law student at Washington's Negro Howard University, wanted to eat his snack in the white section of the bus terminal's segregated...
But Vaus still had trouble winning the confidence of East Harlem's ganglads. And it was not really until he met tough Pete Thomas, who spoke the language of East Harlem as it can only be spoken by those who have been raised in its asphalt jungle, that Vaus...
The Apalachin raid was one of the most celebrated in U.S. police history: that spectacular occasion in November 1957 when New York State cops and federal agents picked up 63 high-muck-a-mucks of U.S. crimedom, all from one barbecue pit. That day, big-time hoods from as far...