Word: killers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shoe Fit. In San Antonio, after he had received an anonymous letter from a wronged husband who said that he intended to kill his cheating wife and her boy friend two days hence. Sheriff Owen Kilday read the message over station KITE and asked the would-be killer to give himself up, within two hours received calls from ten fearful women asking for police protection...
Dedication & Stress. Evidently stress by itself need not be a killer, for there is plenty of it for a coach in Big Ten football. Certainly no man in big business has faced much severer stress than did Sloan as G.M.'s chief executive officer in the era of big unions, big strikes and the biggest...
...second game was over in the first inning when the Yankees' star righthander, Bob Turley, winner of 21 games during the regular season, got gunned out in a seven-run Milwaukee assault. Bauer misplayed a fly ball for a double. Yankee Killer Lew Burdette added insult to injury with a three-run homer, breezed to a 13-5 victory for a record four straight series triumphs over the New Yorkers...
...tomorrow's second game, Burdette, the Yankee-killer of '57 will try to make it two in a row for the Braves. The 20-game winner will be opposed by another right hander, Bob Turley. Turley was the Yanks big winner with a 21-7 season...
...around the island of Formosa. Spread out across the glittering sea were 17 ships deployed around the strike carriers Midway and Lexington. Ahead and on the flank prowled four destroyers, listening for sonar pings. Off to port, screened by six more destroyers, was the carrier Princeton, an antisubmarine hunter-killer. Far to the west, 1,000-m.p.h. F8Us swept along the China coast, their sidewinder missiles inscribed with obscene messages to the Communists. "We make lots of big radar blips," said one of Midway's pilots...