Word: murders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...once madamed a San Francisco "massage parlor." She was, at one time or another, involved in abortion, forgery, check-kiting and theft. She married something between eleven and 20 men, tried to con other men for make-believe pregnancies. But Elizabeth Duncan, 54, was on trial for murder in a Ventura, Calif, courthouse last week because she was a mother-with a vengeance (TIME...
...censure, this time regretting the Tory government's failure to reach an earlier settlement of the Cyprus dispute. Nye Bevan twitted the Tories for dealing with Archbishop Makarios as they had done previously with the Indians and the Irish. "We said we could not 'shake hands with murder,' and then we did shake hands," said Bevan. "We did the same with Nkrumah. Honorable members opposite put him in jail." Came a cry from the Tory benches opposite...
...Vienna, one of Koch's most efficient killers, a 52-year-old former SS master sergeant named Josef Gabriel, faced justice for wholesale murder in Galicia. Early this month, to escape trial, Gabriel had hurled himself from a third-floor courthouse landing, but he survived to hear witnesses describe how he held Jewish children under his arm while blowing their brains out with a pistol. Likely sentence: life imprisonment...
...women, some of whom jumped to suicide when their children drowned. From Athenia's SOS, Lemp learned his victim's name. "So eine Schweinerei!" he exploded: "Warum fährt der aber auch abgeblendet?" (What a mess! But why was she blacked out?) The British called it murder. Goebbels screamed that the villain Churchill had ordered Athenia sunk by British forces, to make a new Lusitania incident and drag the U.S. again into...
...credit, however, does not go to the plot or to the dialogue. The first is a displaced Agatha Christie murder mystery which would have found its logical setting in an English country home on an English country week-end. Instead, the authors have chosen to borrow liberally from the journalism of Art Buchwald and Cleveland Amory and transport their characters to a combination of Biarritz and Capri. The resultant hybrid is not happy. Nor, sad to say, are the lines the participants are made to speak in their non-musical moments. The jokes, such as they are, represent the scum...