Word: germantown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early Life: Born April 10, 1906 in Philadelphia's blue-blooded Germantown, son of a millionaire attorney-banker-industrialist who became president of the University of Pennsylvania (1930-44). Prepped at Philadelphia's Chestnut Hill Academy; majored in English at Penn ('28), played basketball, managed the football team, made Phi Beta Kappa...
...with other big U.S. cities: it is badly in need of a face-lifting. And more than most other cities, Philadelphia is up to its lorgnette in change. The sound of Philadelphia's mighty billion-dollar rebuilding program this week was clanging merrily from cobblestoned Society Hill to Germantown...
...bleakly behind paneless or paper-covered windows, and tenants must sometimes use ladders in place of stairways, outhouses instead of running-water toilets. With the jungle overcrowded, other immigrants fan out into other areas in the city. Some well-off families manage to slip into fine old neighborhoods like Germantown, where they keep well-run homes. But the net effect of the migration is to create new ghettos, drop real-estate values, drain tax revenues, lift the crime rate,† and overburden public schools (18 are all-Negro; in 50, Negroes comprise from 50% to 90% of the student bodies...
...shot would hit him in the chest. Carefully Ray Edwards aimed the rifle, squeezed the trigger, and shot Martin Daniels Sr. square in the chest. In the resulting confusion, the boys ran out of the cemetery, jumped into Marty's car and drove to the Edwards apartment in Germantown...
...Other Father. One day last week the Philadelphia police picked up the three teen-agers as they were returning from Germantown, took them to City Hall, where they readily admitted the murder, signed confessions. There was no difficulty in establishing Marty Daniels' motive for plotting the murder: he hated his father. But what were Ray Edwards' motives? Even to the hardbitten cops, Ray's explanation was a shocker. Why had he fired the rifle? Edwards replied blandly: "Because [Marty] asked me to." Any other reason? "Well, I had the urge to kill...