Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then the police found out something else about young Ray Edwards. On April 2 5, 1955 for shooting an old Philadelphia baker to death during an attempted burglary, Ray's father, Grover Cleveland Edwards, 36, was put to death in the electric chair...
Slender, clean-cut Martin Daniels Jr., 16, had a problem, a pal and a plan. Marty's problem was his father. Martin Daniels Sr.. 35, a shiftless unemployed dockworker. Even in seedy, rough-and-tumble South Philadelphia, where the Daniels family lived in a three-room, $50-a-month apartment, Daniels Sr. was known as a hard-drinking no-good with a long record of arrests-burglary, assault and battery, stabbing, and slugging a cop. He was also rough on Marty, eldest of his six sons-a roughness that hardened into perpetual rage last fall, when...
...Other Father. One day last week the Philadelphia police picked up the three teen-agers as they were returning from Germantown, took them to City Hall, where they readily admitted the murder, signed confessions. There was no difficulty in establishing Marty Daniels' motive for plotting the murder: he hated his father. But what were Ray Edwards' motives? Even to the hardbitten cops, Ray's explanation was a shocker. Why had he fired the rifle? Edwards replied blandly: "Because [Marty] asked me to." Any other reason? "Well, I had the urge to kill...
...surprise," says Birdie, "is the Philadelphia club. Everybody expected that Cincinnati and St. Louis would have a chance to win, and Brooklyn and Milwaukee were the favorites. Now the season is almost half over and it still looks like a five-club race. Oh, the Phils have got great young pitching. The Cardinals could win it too; they've come up with young pitchers that have been tremendous for them. The Braves, they got the equipment. The most powerful ball club is ours or Milwaukee, and ours is the best defensive club. It's a tough league...
...sixth biggest producer (1956 sales: $664 million). When, after a severe heart attack, he finally stepped down as chairman and chief executive this spring, he was the last U.S. steelman still running a major company he had founded. Last week, at 81, Ernest Tener Weir died in Philadelphia of the infirmities of great...