Word: m
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Virtuoso. In San Pedro, Calif., police hunted the fly fisherman who had made a cast into L. M. White's motel room and flicked out his wallet...
...found the work there much easier than at home. Therefore, said Czechoslovakia's Jaroslava Moserova, "Americans cheat far less in examinations. At home, everyone cheats and everyone helps. You write notes on your handkerchief or pin notes to your skirt. But when I go back, I'm going to study without cheating...
Scobie believed in God but he could not altogether trust Him. In a significant dialogue with the voice of God in his conscience, he desperately opposed God's will with his own: "I know what I'm doing. I'm not pleading for mercy . . ." And the voice replied: "So long as you live ... I have hope . . . Can't you just go on, as you are doing now?" But Scobie answered, "No. That's impossible." And, with the most careful deliberation, he planned-and carried out-his suicide, cunningly making it appear like death from natural...
...inheritance, his ailing heart began fluttering and he took to his bed. ¶Night Managing Editor Mason Peters, 33, a Navy veteran, was hauled up from the police beat by Mrs. Patterson. When asked how it felt to be a millionaire, he brushed it off: "Oh, I'm not interested in the money. It's my pencil-my career in the newspaper-that interests...
...scampered Seltzer on his way to the scene. On a landing he caromed into big-bellied Publisher E. W. Scripps, who picked him up, held him at arm's length and asked what was the hurry. Piped Seltzer indignantly: "Put me down, sir, put me down! I'm covering a story...