Word: marooning
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...sandstone house on Manhattan's upper East Side, the door of a third-floor bedroom opened softly at 7:30 a.m. one day last week. Following a routine of many years' standing, a handsome, grey-haired man, clad in a maroon and navy dressing gown, reached into the hall to pick up the newspaper. Then Arthur Hays Sulzberger hopped back into bed to read his New York Times...
...Four or five men in a 1941 maroon Chevrolet pulled up at Charlie Hurst's house in Pell City, Ala. (pop. 900) just as Charlie, a former storekeeper, was shucking off his shoes for the night. One of the visitors knocked on the door and shouted for Charlie. "It looks like the Ku Kluxers are after me," he muttered to his son. He went out to see, and his son followed with a .22 rifle in his hands. When the men tried to drag Charlie into the car, he grabbed the rifle from the son and blazed away, shattering...
...kissed her, and then, after she left for church took down his shotgun and killed himself. His three sons and his two nephews told state investigators a bizarre and helpful story. One of the nephews, at Heath's urging, had replaced a broken glass window in a maroon Chevrolet the night of the Hurst murder. Heath had confessed to his sons that he took part in the raid, warned them to keep it quiet for their own protection. The sons said that the Rev. Alvin C. Horn, a tall, slouched Kleagle in the Association of Georgia Klans, had called...
Alabama cops arrested their first suspects next day. One was Horn, 39-year-old pastor of three Baptist churches. The other was Claude Luker, an owner of a Talladega furniture store-and of the maroon Chevrolet. The charge: murder "with malice aforethought." Police later picked up Louis Harrison, Cyclops of the Pell City Klan and athletic director of the big Avondale textile mills. He gave cops a list of members in his Klavern. This time it looked as if the Klan might not get away with its reign of terror...
...selection of friendly, unassuming "Whit" Griswold, who favors quiet tweeds and drives his own maroon jeep station wagon, came as a surprise. New Haven scuttlebutt had been tossing around the name of Secretary of State Dean Acheson ('15) and others. President-Elect Griswold seemed as surprised as anybody. Said he: "It was so sudden I've had no time to make plans. My wife is bearing up bravely ... I feel fine...