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...DEAD reads the banner headline over this lead by John Harrigan: "It was a crime of unbelievable proportions that left at least five people dead, a newspaper and a police fraternity in shock and a community stunned to its core." On the afternoon of Aug. 19, Carl Drega, a loner with a murderous grudge and an AR-15 assault rifle, gunned down New Hampshire state troopers Scott Phillips and Les Lord, stole Phillips' police cruiser, then drove to the newspaper building at 1 Bridge Street, where he shot and killed Vickie Bunnell, an attorney and part-time judge whose office...
...pretty and gifted at the right time; that gave her a taste of stardom. But she aspired to it the old way--by being a dignified actress, a chanteuse, a lady--at just the time when pop culture was busting into rowdiness. Bogle says she was "the beauty as loner." That isolation may have scuttled her. Now it makes her a heroine, a nostalgia pinup and a source for the kind of movie role Dorothy Dandridge was rarely lucky enough to play...
Federal investigators now believe last July's Centennial Olympic Park explosion (a possible witness is still being sought) and two other unsolved ATLANTA BOMBINGS may have been the work of a deranged loner, not a political extremist group as first suspected. After the bombings of an Atlanta abortion clinic and a gay nightclub, claims of responsibility were lodged by "units of the Army of God," a nom de guerre used by some violent antiabortion protesters. But agents scouring the South have identified no group with the motive, opportunity and means to have perpetrated the bombings. Investigators suspect the political rhetoric...
...into Margaret Sullavan's heart in The Shop Around the Corner? Or the tortured Capra hero whose trust in American values was tested past all endurance, till he tumbled close to madness? Or the pixilated Elwood P. Dowd of Harvey, his best friend an invisible rabbit? Or the vengeful loner of the Anthony Mann westerns of the '50s--taut epics like Bend of the River and The Man from Laramie--in which Stewart often played a bitter Moses leading settlers to the far country he could never call home? Or the slick rural attorney in Otto Preminger's Anatomy...
...great journalists often are, Tony was fundamentally an outsider and a loner. He went at the world with a ferocious curiosity: he needed to know every detail of what had happened, every nuance of motive and consequence. The last time we had dinner he mentioned that he had wanted to add to his Idaho book a bit of last-minute material on the press coverage of the trial--so he had got the registry of press credentials granted (more than three-quarters of a century ago) and assembled a file on every person on the list. This...