Word: nuzum
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Dates: during 1949-1949
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Coach Ed Callanan will have a majority of last spring's squad on hand for the international jaunt. Along with last years Captain and Rugby Club president, Joe Eaton, Callanan will have the services of Charley Whiting, Lou Travis, Tom Nuzum, Len Wheeler, Coloin McIntyre, Hollis French, Al Key, Al Green, Doug Wall, and John Densmore...
When the town began to resound with rumors that somebody was trying to cover up the crime, the sheriff secretly jailed a fellow who had been drinking with Cricket on the night of her disappearance. The man was one of his own friends, beefy, crop-haired Jerry Nuzum, a professional football player for the Pittsburgh Steelers. For three days no word of the arrest leaked...
...story. The football player had dim-wittedly agreed to stay in jail under what Happy called "voluntary arrest" because he had been told he would be charged with murder if he objected or tried to see a lawyer. But when Reporter Finley slipped into the jail and talked to Nuzum, he protested convincingly that he had nothing to do with Cricket's murder...
...loose. The roof promptly fell in on the sheriff. A Negro construction worker named Wesley Byrd complained that he had also been held incommunicado in jail for twelve days, that state policemen had tried to make him admit the crime by squeezing his testicles with a bicycle lock. Nuzum's landlady, who backed the athlete's alibi, had been warned by the sheriff that "he didn't want any more dead women around here...
Full color winners: Sam Adams, Bill Boucher, John Carey, Ed Davis, John Densmore, Joe Eaton, John Emerson, Hollis French, Al Green, Al Key, Peter Manning Smith, Colin McIntyre, Tom Nuzum, Ford Schoch, Lou Travis, Len Wheeler, Ed white, Charles Whiting...