Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...right trim to his long copper hair and the proper cant to his cigarette made him look like James Dean. Beyond these, Chuck Starkweather accepted just two constants: 1) the world was against him, 2) when somebody's against you, fight back. This he learned in home town Lincoln, Neb. at Saratoga Elementary School, where the other boys made fun of his bandy legs, his myopic green eyes, his thick spectacles and a speech defect that made him say "wowse" for "house" and "awong" for "along." They backed off when Chuck bore in with fists flailing; they fled when...
...rented room until back rent was paid, forbidden to see chubby, 14-year-old Caril Fugate, to whom he had proposed at least three times. Last fortnight Starkweather decided to get even. Before he was stopped, he had shot, stabbed or clubbed ten people to death, and Lincoln (pop. 120,000) shivered through a two-day panic...
...Everybody Is Sick." Starkweather's battle started at the one-story frame house in Lincoln's rundown Belmont section, where Caril lived with her mother, stepfather and two-year-old half sister. For several days relatives noticed an unnatural stillness around the house; twice they came to find out why. Caril turned them away at the door, reported the family ill. Detectives called to investigate, found no one home, a note on the door: "Stay away. Everybody is sick with the flu. Miss Bartlett." Still concerned, the family came back. A search turned up not sickness but murder...
...voiced Negro comedian, Jack Benny's radio and television chauffeur, valet and drawling stooge since 1937, interpreter of Noah in both the 1936 movie and last fall's TV versions of The Green Pastures, and Eva Anderson, 25: their first son, second child; in Hollywood. Name: Edmund Lincoln. Weight...
...much as a spitball. That fitted in perfectly with the policy of President James Buchanan, the "Old Public Functionary" (known to his critics as the "Old Pennsylvania Fogy"), who only wanted to delay war until the day when he could turn the whole sorry mess over to the incoming Lincoln Administration...