Word: murders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When . . ." Shortly after Orbay's second trial, the uncooperative court of appeals again threw out the verdict of the lower court, on the grounds that since no motive had been proved, the murder could not be called premeditated. Last week's trial sentenced Orbay to 18 years for murder with "motives which are not clear...
Perfectly clear to every pundit in Ankara's buzzing Karpic restaurant was what they swore was the real story. On an emergency call to one of Ankara's major embassies just before the murder, Dr. Arcan saw Orbay there in conference with the embassy's military attaché. Fearing that the doctor would tell what he had seen, Orbay killed him. Commented one Turkish official privately: "The real reason for this murder will only be made public if or when diplomatic relations between Turkey and a certain great neighboring power are broken...
...minutes ago. The memory of the crazed woman in her last agony as she struggled against the unholy embrace of the chair is yet too harrowing . . . She wore blue bloomers . . ." In such flamboyant journalese, flamboyant Hearstling Gene Fowler described the executions of Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray for the murder of her husband, in the old New York American. Fowler's story was republished last week in Star Reporters (Random House; $3), an anthology of 34 newspaper stories selected by Hearstling Ward Greene. Editor Greene polled 100 newsmen, then ignored most of their 1,000 nominations in favor...
Nevertheless, many of the stories are notable simply because, in detailing murder and sudden death, they also give pictures-more vivid than history books, more penetrating-than novels-of their times...
There have usually been hidden wells of sentiment in Mr. Cain's characters. Even in The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934), Frank, though handy enough at murder with a wrench, sometimes thought about God while in swimming. The Moth gets its title from the fluttering blue-green Luna moth that Jack Dillon falls in love with as a little boy and ever after remembers at beautiful moments...