Word: palming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...handles, ball-point pens and rolled-up magazines for general jabbing at vital areas. Hatpins* are oldfashioned, but very useful: "If you hold it by the top you can make holes in people." High heels and key rings are excellent for leaving marks: "Hold the key ring in your palm, make the keys extend through your fingers and scratch. We won't have any trouble identifying...
...Fame seven years ago, reported that she's been skimping on the haute couture lately. "That navy blue coat I wore the other day is two years old," she sighed. "When my maid packed my bags, she said, 'Madame, some of these evening dresses have gone to Palm Beach with you three times.' I'm hoping nobody will remember...
...tanned, lanky Hamilton, 26, whose attributes are more highly esteemed by Hollywood starlets than by the movie critics, comes to such sumptuous living, he says, via a "sort of flotsam and jetsam route"-Memphis, Palm Beach, Manhattan, 25 different schools. His late father was a musician and perfume company executive. His Southern-born mother, George says, is "an Auntie Mame, but more warm and contemporary," who has been married and divorced four times...
...only statement, which might have helped to incriminate him, was inadmissible at the Miami trial; the prosecution had to rely on indirect evidence. Witnesses placed Powers aboard a Miami-bound jet the afternoon of the murder and at the bar. But the Coke bottle never turned up, a palm print of Powers found in Mossler's kitchen could have been days old, and a bloody handprint on Mossler's body was unidentifiable. The white car, found at the airport, was bloodless; neighbors could testify only that it looked "similar" to the getaway...
Self-Wounded. In addition to this recital, the Air Force logbook at West Palm Beach suggested that Shea was on duty 65 miles away until at least one hour before Mary Meslener left the airport-hardly time enough, as claimed in his confession, for Shea to hitchhike to Miami, visit several downtown bars, ride a bus to the airport, try to steal a car, get caught in the act by Mary Meslener and then murder her. Not only was Shea later unable to point out the parking lot where the original assault took place, but a palm print found...