Word: lynched
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...handles a typewriter about as clumsily as the average reporter would handle a Speed Graphic camera. But Francis Michael ("Slim") Lynch makes good pictures with either machine. A year ago, the Washington State Press Club gave old-time Photographer Lynch a prize (for a picture of a murderer's wife tearfully comforting the victim's mother). Last week Slim Lynch, who has now put his camera aside, got another Press Club award-this time, for the best-written feature story in any newspaper in the state...
Hulking, tough-talking Slim (for what he used to be) Lynch, 47, has found his new job no soft touch: "Jeez, I got so I could take the pictures they sent me out on with my eyes closed. This, brother, is different. Writing is damn hard work...
Unlike most lynch mobs, the men who beat and killed Negro Willie Earle (TIME, Feb. 24) were not hard to unmask. Most of them wore cab drivers' caps; several of their automobiles were taxis. They were almost surely from Greenville, where Willie Earle had been arrested after the murder of a cab driver ten days...
...Lynch (E) defeated W. T. Bocricke '50 (H), 15-10, 15-12, 15-8; H. K. Foster '50 (H) defeated Harding (E), 15-8, 15-7, 17-15; J. P. Emerson '50 (H) defeated Buttricke (E), 15-4, 12-15, 15-10, 15-12; Captain F. H. Cabot '50 (B), defeated Koenig (E), 15-10, 15-12, 17-19, 19-16; S. Mead '50 (H) defeated Colwell...
...Honshu, raced up the funnel neck of Kii Strait, dealt sleeping villages across 60,000 square miles six shattering blows in three hours. Tokyo newspapers called it the worst disaster since the great earthquake of September 1923, which killed 143,000. Said famed Fordham Seismologist Father Joseph J. Lynch: "A ripsnorter...