Word: culprit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your otherwise excellent article on the quiz-show scandals neglected the real culprit -that vice president from the Manufacturers Trust Co. We peasants from the sticks were counting on him and his uniformed bank guards to vouchsafe the purity and integrity of The $64,000 Question. He let us down...
...Word. In Miami, Lutheran Pastor E. W. Albrecht, who often wondered "if my message gets across," got a phone call from the thief who swiped the church's tape recorder, learned that the conscience-stricken culprit had decided to return the machine after listening to a recorded sermon on repentance...
...Times was wrong, who had misinformed it? The wits of May fair could not decide whether the culprit was someone who wanted to get rid of Selwyn Lloyd or ensure his continuance in office. The simplest explanation was that the august Times of London-by blowing up run-of-the-mill speculation-had goofed, and the lesson of it was that the once mighty Thunderer is really now, as so many Fleet Streeters call it, old Aunty of Printing House Square. The further consequence of the flap was that plodding Selwyn Lloyd could now consider himself more secure...
Handicap. In Chicago, police could not find the culprit when Boston Linwood complained that his car had been damaged by a hit-and-run horse...
...issue had been dead for 16 years, and Nassau's nice people never talked about it. But last week Cyril Stevenson, an irreverent minority member of Nassau's House of Assembly, loudly claimed that he knew who did Sir Harry in. Stevenson did not identify the culprit, Sir Harry's murderer stayed doggo, and the whole effect was rather like spilling the canape tray at a Government House garden party...