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...rescue mission soup line in Jacksonville in 1976 and hit it off immediately. But Drifters Henry Lee Lucas, 47, and Ottis Elwood Toole, 36, were drawn together by more than mere loneliness or poverty. According to Lucas, they roamed from coast to coast on a seven-year spree of rape, mutilation and murder that is unequaled in American police records. The two convicts have allegedly confessed to committing, separately and together, hundreds of murders. Though their claims may ultimately prove to be exaggerated, law-enforcement officials say that one or both are prime suspects in 97 cases in 13 states...
...Baldwin-United (1982 revenues: $3.6 billion) made sweet music by sticking mainly to the business it knew best, manufacturing pianos. Then in 1968 the company began dabbling in financial services with the $16 million purchase of a Denver bank. That was the beginning of a 14-year buying spree that put Baldwin in businesses ranging from insurance to trading stamps. But the firm stretched itself too far. Last week, after stalling lenders for six months, Baldwin filed for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the bankruptcy laws...
...home, as F. Scott Fitzgerald put it, the country went on "the greatest, gaudiest spree in history." People laughed a lot but without bitterness. Underneath I its frivolity the country remained devout about the American verities. The American system was hardly questioned, and the phrase "God's country" could still be used unblushingly...
...must to all streaks, an end came at last to Joe Di Maggio's batting spree. In a night game in Cleveland's vast Municipal Stadium, just two months and two days after starting the longest batting streak in the history of major-league baseball, Joe went hitless...
Daredevil Spree...