Word: pistoling
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Eileen Fahey was blonde, pretty, 18 years old, a secretary and bookkeeper; now she was lying sprawled on the floor beside her desk, dead, with five .22-cal. pistol bullets in her body. To the band of New York homicide detectives who looked down at her last week, all this seemed less startling than her surroundings. The quiet offices of the American Physical Society at Columbia University seemed the most unlikely spot in Manhattan for murder...
Eileen had come to work at 9 o'clock, had found three letters from her boy friend, a young marine serving in Korea. She had opened only one before a secretary in the hall outside heard the pistol which killed her. After a moment a tall, dark-haired man in a grey suit had come hurrying out, the weapon still in his hand...
...found that he lived at none of them. But at one they learned that Peakes's parents were at Dover-Fox-croft, Me.: by telephone they finally got his Boston address. At 11 o'clock that night they eased themselves into his furnished room, found the murder pistol, then settled down tensely for his return. Peakes was amiability itself when he walked in. He admitted the killing...
...French court had just decided that, although Duclos had been arrested during the Communist Ridgway riots on May 28 in a car fitted out with blackjack, loaded pistol and those two famous eating squabs (TIME, June 16), he was not in flagrante delicto (caught in the act), and was therefore entitled to parliamentary immunity as a member of the National Assembly. The five-man Paris appeals court (from whose decision there is no appeal) is headed by President Paul Didier, member of the Communist-backed "Peace Partisans...
...Masterpieces of the 20th Century" exhibit (TIME, June 2) and they were worth millions. Albertini cat-footed to the doorway and froze in his tracks. Visible in the glow from the windows were two men cutting masterpieces out of their frames with razors. Albertini whipped out his pistol, cried, "Haut les mains...