Word: snyders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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About one death in five in the U.S. calls for official investigation. So says Dr. Le-Moyne Snyder, medico-legal director of the Michigan State Police. The number of unsolved killings is considerable. Dr. Snyder believes that this is largely due to police bungling. To show the need for scientific detection, he published last week an elementary manual on murder (Homicide Investigation, Charles C. Thomas...
...Snyder's chief thesis will be no surprise to detective-story fans: the first 15 minutes of investigation is likely to make or break a case. He insists that nothing must be moved until the scene of a murder has been thoroughly photographed and sketched, distances measured, fingerprints recorded and full notes compiled...
...notes a number of ways of telling a murder from a suicide. Hanging is almost a sure sign of suicide; murder by hanging is rare. To determine whether a body was strung up after death to simulate suicide, Dr. Snyder looks for small black and blue marks on the neck: if present, they show that blood vessels were ruptured by the rope and the person was alive when hanged. Suicide by shooting also has a characteristic pattern: a suicide usually shoots himself in the temple, often misses the first two or three times (technically known as "hesitation shots"). Shooting oneself...
Transcriptions of popular U.S. programs like the Hit Parade came through with the commercial plugs neatly excised. Whereupon the G.I.s complained: they were homesick for commercials. A sergeant named Buell Snyder, who used to be a professional contest winner in private life, volunteered to fill the bill. His versions of commercials have been a resounding success. Sample...
...when Editor Weeks took over. Later other young blood (notably urbane Richard Ely Danielson, with new ownership money) was infused. The oldtimer soon sat up to a new diet: less literature for literature's sake, more topical, issue-grappling articles. This week Editor Weeks and Publisher Donald B. Snyder could report a strong Atlantic pulse: 1943 advertising up 38% from 1939, December 1943's circulation of 108,037 (not including newsstand sales, which bring it to Snyder's estimate of 125,000) up 78% from 1939's average. The Atlantic had hit its alltime high...