Word: murdered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...murder mystery it was a natural. On Easter Eve, the mother had apparently been preparing vegetables and a roast for next day's dinner. She had been strangled. Judging from her bruised knuckles and the traces of skin and grey hair later found beneath her nails, she had fought her assailant. The roomer, deaf, had presumably been murdered in his sleep. The murderer had then waited until the daughter came home at 3 a.m. Charles Robinson who lived on the top floor reported, "As I came up the steps leading to the Gedeons' floor...
...midweek the triple murder mystery had reached such a news-picture frenzy that decent, practical, socialite Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson of the tabloid News, with front and back pages, a double-page spread inside, and five other pages of the day's issue already devoted to the Gedeon case, felt impelled to ask himself publicly: "Should we have done this?" By printing a ravishing body view of the murdered Veronica Gedeon smack in his editorial column beside the face of Chief Justice Hughes, Self-Critic Patterson boosted his paper's total of the murdered Veronica's pictures...
...What Is the Best Story?" was the headline of his editorial, which debated the News's wallowing treatment of the murders as contrasted with its brief recording of the Supreme Court's important batch of decisions the day after Easter (TIME, April 5). Wrote Publisher Patterson: "If we could print only one of the two stories we'd choose the Supreme Court. . . . Perhaps people should be more interested today in the Supreme Court than in the Gedeon murder, but we don't think they are. . . . Murder sells papers, books, plays because we are all fascinated...
TIME'S statement that Author Wallace dictated Ocean Liner in 35 hours is well authenticated. Author Sydney Horler's latest published works are The Hidden Hand, The Lessing Murder Case, The Man With Two Faces...
...clean, sturdy barracks most of the inmates and all of the guards behave a good deal like the amiable and manly V. M. I. officers and guards of Brother Rat (TIME, Dec. 28). But Frank Wilson (Charles Jordan) and Scappa (Maurice Burke) are nobody's angels. Frank has murdered a man in a stickup with a gun he got Johnny Stone (John Raby) to steal from his sister's sweetheart, a Holmes patrolman. Frank seems pretty smart to Johnny when he gets the two of them sent up for three years for a $10 robbery so they...