Word: spottedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In the breathless heat, Chicago seemed to ache for the relief of violence. On a throbbing night, Detective Bill Murphy spotted Dickie Carpenter, 26, wanted for banditry, on a subway platform. When the policeman tried to arrest the thug, Carpenter killed Murphy with a .38 he packed under his loose...
For the next two days, his photograph on every front page, Carpenter slept in movie houses. Then Patrolman Clarence Kerr, leaving the Biltmore Theater with his wife, spotted Carpenter snoozing through the gunfire-crackling climax of a western thriller. Policeman Kerr fired five times in the darkness, but fell to...
Browsing through a marketplace in Tashkent, capital of the Soviet Union's irrigation-ditched Uzbek Republic, a U.S. newsman spotted a cowboy hat, asked its wearer if he was an American. The far-flung tourist, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, reckoned he was. Later, Douglas dashed to a...
Caveat Emptor. In Lubbock, Texas, Detectives Jack Hunnicutt and Claude Keaton spotted a man selling suspicious-looking bottles for $1 each to street-corner passersby, followed him to his cache, discovered an additional 30 bottles, gave up the investigation when they proved to contain 100% tap water.
Gourmet. In Hardwick, Vt., where he was arrested and fined $18.50 for assault, Lorenzo Brochu, 42, admitted he entered a local diner, spotted Joseph Bellavance, plucked him out of his chair, flung him into the street while roaring: "I wouldn't eat in the same place with that man...