Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chicago sweated as the woolly, wet heat topped 99°. But it was not too hot for lurid drama. For the first time since the Leopold-Loeb thrill murder of 1924, the home of sudden gunfire and anonymous funeral wreaths last week had a crime story juicy enough to appease its appetite. It seemed like old times...
...Bill, was a duo-personality-that Bill Heirens had made George up the way children invent playmates. By such a device, they said, Bill Heirens could remain an average son and student, date nice girls and go to church, and at the same time carry on a one-man crime wave to make even Chicago's hair rise. Chicago's hair rose, but the back of its neck tingled pleasantly...
Chicago's raucous dailies have never outgrown their Front Page days; last week they romped through the Heirens story like street urchins frolicking at an open hydrant. Scuffling for scoops in a mad, midsummer rough-&-tumble, they whooped it up as the crime news of the century, unloaded extra after extra on willing Chicagoans...
Agness ("Aggie") Underwood is an uninhibited Los Angeles crime reporter. She has lately been teaching William Randolph Hearst's granddaughter Phoebe the newspaper business (TIME, May 27). Last week Aggie gave her Hearstling apprentice a forthright lesson in the care and treatment of city editors...
...year-old native New Yorker who has broken in a brace of imported bosses since joining Tass in 1929 He speaks little Russian, cables his stories in English. Tass sends 7,000 to 8,000 words a day about the U.S. to Moscow; its report is light on crime, scandal and feature news, heavy on production figures, U.S. culture, high-level politics, anything critical of the Kremlin...