Word: locksmithing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From barroom characters who had known Red Barker, Beshoar learned that there might be some trunks in storage. He got hold of the lawyer who was handling the estate. They picked up a locksmith and went to the warehouse. There, among a litter of old shoes, shirts, letters and miscellaneous personal belongings, they found a handwritten manuscript which turned out to be Red's version of the story of the Barker brothers' life. That made the death of the local bartender national news, and the story appeared in the April...
Minutes after Suspense was officially ended, Georgia was on the haunt. In all, more than 2,500 phone calls jammed CBS's Manhattan switchboard. Everyone had the same reasonable question: Whodunit? Apparently the scripters thought they had made it plain: "The Creeper" was the locksmith who had just come to fix Georgia's front door. Why, then, had the TV audience been confused...
...answer, CBS finally decided, was that most people tend to retain what they see more readily than what they hear. Television, which demands closer visual attention than the ordinary, unselected sights of everyday life, closer even than movies, may exaggerate this tendency. The TV audience had not seen the locksmith, but had heard him speak several times during the play. Yet, reasons CBS, the audience was looking so hard that it forgot to listen, and could not place the murderer's voice. Later that night CBS was forced to telecast a "news bulletin" announcing the identity of the killer...
...Landsberg Prison (where his friend Adolf Hitler once wrote Mein Kampf), ex-Gunmaker Alfred Krupp denied a report that he passed the time making toy guns. The fact was that Krupp was using his twelve-year term to resume the trade of his ancestors; he had become a locksmith...
Died. Baron Hayter (born: George Hayter Chubb), 98, frail son of a locksmith who built his family's tiny business into the famed Chubb & Sons' Lock and Safe Co., Ltd., in 1927 was raised to the peerage, became a director of the life insurance company that once refused him a policy because of his ill health, lived to be Britain's oldest peer; in London...