Word: strangler
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...hours' sleep one morning, grilled him nonstop, with time out only to attend the funeral of the murdered women, for 33 hours. His alibi had obvious gaps. Although neighbors had heard screams the murder night, the dead women's Pekingese had not barked, must have known the strangler. Despite his wispy build and his age (54), the upholsterer had unusually powerful hands. The police questioned him on the sexy photographs and erotic books in his bedroom behind the upholstery shop, puzzled over his composure at the funeral, hounded him about the murders. But the police could not "break...
Died. Martin J. ("Farmer") Burns, 75, onetime world's wrestling champion; in Council Bluffs, Iowa; of senility. Burns defeated Evan Lewis (the original "Strangler") for the heavyweight title in 1895, when choke holds were allowed, lost to Tom Jenkins three years later, trained Frank Gotch to throw Jenkins. Trainer and Chautauqua lecturer, he boasted: "Only one man out of Cedar County, Iowa (Herbert Hoover), ever made more money than I did and he got to be President of the United States...
...sportswriters who sputtered indignantly at these revelations forgot what revolutionary changes had occurred in a sport which now grosses $5,000,000 a year from the U. S. public. In the days of Farmer Burns and Frank Gotch wrestling was, indeed, an exhibition of skill and strength. When Ed ("Strangler") Lewis, Stanislaus Zbyszko and Joe Stecher began to trade their "world championships" with peculiar regularity, U. S. fans became perturbed. In the 1920's the sport sank deep in the doldrums...
...assembled for a basket supper, quartet singing, a speech by State Legislator Lewis Browning, and discussion of the erection of a Browning Memorial Building. Organized last year, U. B. F. draws most of its members from Browning's Valley, Mo. Best known is Wrestler Jim ("Wrigglin' ") Browning who defeated "Strangler" Lewis in 1933. Famed as much for their nicknames as for their physical strength, Ozark members of the U. B. F. are known to friends and relatives as: Tar Pole, Buck Foot, Dough Belly, Goofy, Little Creamy, Big Bugs, Hard Head, Red Wing, Kraut, Fuzzy, Biscuits, Ivan Tomcat. "Joe Chickie...
After the War, when the famed "Masked Marvel" (Mort Henderson) was defeated by Strangler Lewis, wrestling became comparatively unprofitable. Promoter Curley restored the sport to favor in 1929 by the simple device of having his performers shriek, groan, wave their arms, grimace and plunge out of the ring, instead of squirming calmly on the floor as is the practice of wrestlers who are solely occupied with winning...