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Police described the dead man as a 40-to 45-year-old white, wearing black pants, green sweater, yellow and maroon checkered sports jacket and a raincoat. He was carrying an airline bag over his shoulder and had no form of identification when he was found...
...There, that was easy," chirped a blonde teenager in a raincoat as the bounded to the pavement...
...Finally, I just got bored," says Baker. "I had done enough reporting. I began to feel like Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman, carrying that typewriter in one hand and that suitcase in the other and a dirty old raincoat into one more hotel lobby. It came to seem that this wasn't a worthy way for a grown man to spend his life. You have good seats, sure, but you're always on the sidelines. You're not making anything. Auden has a wonderful essay?it's in The Dyer's Hand?about how young people want...
...follow the "reasonings of his warped mind," but his findings were as often the result of tenacious 18-hour-a-day investigations. In his most famous case, the Alec de Antiquis murder in 1947, he traced the killers through a ticket sewn in the lining of a filthy raincoat. After his retirement, he lectured and wrote Fabian of the Yard. His book and sleuthing inspired movie plots and TV films...
Your article "Stacy's Day at the Abortion Clinic" [April 10] demonstrates how sad it is that it is so easy to forget the murder of an unborn child with a shopping spree for new shoes and a raincoat...