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...apartment building. One man threw open his bedroom window, bellowed down to the street, "Let that girl alone." Moseley hurried back to his car, while Kitty-stabbed four times-staggered away. Moseley stayed in his car only long enough to change from a stocking cap to a black fedora, then he returned to stalk the bleeding girl. Of the shout from the building, Moseley recalled: "I had a feeling that this man would close his window and go back to sleep, and sure enough he did." In all, at least 38 persons witnessed-without calling the police-one part...
...Cover) With the exaggerated gestures of a man who feels the eyes of scrutiny, the short, fox-faced witness removed his serious blue fedora, took off the velvet-collared overcoat with the laven der silk lining, and with well-manicured hands smoothed back a wisp of brown hair. His bright eyes stole briefly across the gathered crowd and looked away again. Then, clutching a black attache case imprinted with his silver initials, Robert Gene Baker, 36, the whizbang from Pickens, S.C., hurried into a hearing room in the old Senate Office Building...
...checked in at the station house to pick up a spare passenger, then set off on a routine night patrol that included aiding an arrest, family squabbles, a threatened knife skirmish, and a checkup on two youthful narcotics users. Nobody recognized the "detective" in dark glasses and a borrowed fedora, even though his framed portrait hung on the wall in one shabby basement apartment. It was Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr., 41, prowling the streets incognito with New York's Finest. "He was interested mostly in the kids," reported Patrolman Thomas Gannon. "He said it looked just like West...
...accusations about the massive Soviet buildup in Castro's Cuba had to be answered. New York's Republican Senator Kenneth Keating vowed to eat his hat if his charges were not right. And it was to force such critics as Keating to a diet of fried fedora that President Kennedy last week ordered Defense Secretary McNamara and CIA Chief John McCone to an unprecedented public report on the state of Cuba's military strength. Never before had a nation displayed in such detail its secrets of intelligence-gathering over an unfriendly country...
McLevy lived as frugally as did Bridgeport. When the usual police-driven squad car was first offered for his use, he barked: "Get that damn thing out of here." He wore the same shapeless brown fedora for some 15 years. His frayed shirts were usually smudged, his brown or grey suits baggy, his high-laced shoes were scuffed. His only sartorial concern was that all aldermen wear straw hats, white gloves and carry dime-store flags in the Memorial Day parade each year. They did-and still...