Word: masses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Field Work. In Dorchester, Mass., Robert Rogers, arrested for robbery after an 80-m.p.h. chase by police, asked reporters to hush the whole thing up, explained: "I'm studying to take the police exams...
Vital Statistics. Age: 63 (born Nov. 3, 1884 in North Attleboro, Mass., in a two-family frame house across the street from John Stanley's blacksmith shop). Ancestry: eldest son of eight children of Joseph William Martin Sr., a Presbyterian Scotsman who worked in the blacksmith shop, and Catherine Katon, an Irish Catholic; both his parents were born in New Jersey. Educated: North Attleboro public schools through high school. Not Married. Church: none...
...mass evacuation, prompted partly by fear, partly by orders of Arab leaders, left the Arab quarter of Haifa a ghost city. More than pride and defiance was behind . the Arab orders. By withdrawing Arab workers, their leaders hoped to paralyze Haifa. Jewish leaders said wishfully: "They'll be back in a few days. Already some are returning...
...Choreographer De Mille's first all-out try at murder. She had long been fascinated by the story of Lizzie Borden, the Fall River (Mass.) spinster who was tried in the '90s for the ax murder of her father and stepmother. Last year ("because I was feeling gloomy and murderous") she started building a ballet to show in Freudian terms how a young girl might get worked up to murder. One difference: her heroine commits the murders onstage and hangs; Lizzie Borden was acquitted...