Word: rewards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...murder in May 1949 of Willie Lurye, an International Ladies' Garment Workers Union organizer, was a sensational news story. Shortly after he was stabbed to death in a telephone booth in Manhattan's garment center, the union posted a $25,000 reward for the capture of his killers; a few days later, tens of thousands of garment workers joined the funeral march (TIME, May 23, 1949) as 100 New York City detectives hunted the killers. The hunt was still at its height when Columnist Walter Winchell got into the case: from a friend "on the side...
...Replied nattily dressed, 36-year-old Macri: "I understand, Mr. Winchell. Thank you very much." Then the two walked together, past a thoughtfully posted Mirror photographer, to a police station only 100 feet away. There Winchell, pale and "sick to my stomach," turned Macri in, claimed the $25,000 reward for the Damon Runyon Cancer Fund. It was the second time Winchell had surrendered a man wanted for murder: in 1939, he handed over the late gangster, Louis ("Lepke") Buchalter...
From then on, Jeremiah rushes headlong to disaster-an elaborate venture into murder, his apprehension by some bumbling louts intent on gaining the reward for the murderer's discovery, the climactic trial at which he hears himself convicted by false testimony he cannot refute because of his even greater fear of the truth. After a last-minute escape to a miserable outlaw camp in the wilderness of Kentucky, he comes to the final, crushing discovery that he has been the victim of a plot by his political cronies...
...Game). Exploring his pigeons' personalities, he came to the conclusion that many were prone to superstition. They tended to repeat any action that had, in the past, produced food. Some became addicted to complicated rituals, hoping that twirlings and bowings, repeated in a fixed sequence, would yield a reward of food. Even when these actions had no effect, the pigeons clung to them hopefully...
Pigeons are now learning other trades besides decorating statues and outdoor monuments, the Harvard Psychological Laboratories announced recently. Psychology professor B. F. Skinner is using the birds to find the roles of reward and punishment in getting animals to perform work...