Word: hells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Going to Hell...
Bravo to Rector Kinsolving for saying, "Hell is a damnable doctrine ... is responsible for a large measure of the world's hatred [Dec. 30]." He has the courage to preach the beliefs that others in the clergy don't even dare to admit to their parishioners...
...Montana M.D.'s attitude is no worse than that of the Middleton, Wis. (near Madison) M.D. who, some years ago, verbally told me to "go to hell" when I asked him to our house to treat a badly burned little girl. His ethical reasoning was as follows: "You had Patty delivered in Madison, and if you want anything done for her, why don't you take her there...
Died. Elmer Francis ("Trigger") Burke, 40, scrawny gangland executioner, suspected of at least seven murders, convicted (Dec. 16, 1955) of one (his boyhood friend, Longshoreman Edward Walsh, in a 1952 barroom quarrel); by electrocution; in Sing Sing prison. Born in Manhattan's squalid Hell's Kitchen, Killer Burke served his first stretch in 1941 (for breaking and entering), soldiered with the U.S. Army Rangers in the Normandy invasion, afterwards settled down as a dock-front gunman, kept on a $300-per-month retainer by New York gangster brass. In 1954 Burke was hired to machine gun Joseph ("Specs...
...closing the trunk, and looking at his car) Sure, what the hell. This thing will probably be here all winter anyway. (They walk...