Word: suspectedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Elmer Francis ("Trigger") Burke, 40, scrawny gangland executioner, suspected of at least seven murders, convicted (Dec. 16, 1955) of one (his boyhood friend, Longshoreman Edward Walsh, in a 1952 barroom quarrel); by electrocution; in Sing Sing prison. Born in Manhattan's squalid Hell's Kitchen, Killer Burke served his first stretch in 1941 (for breaking and entering), soldiered with the U.S. Army Rangers in the Normandy invasion, afterwards settled down as a dock-front gunman, kept on a $300-per-month retainer by New York gangster brass. In 1954 Burke was hired to machine gun Joseph ("Specs...
...parley at the summit with the Kremlin. Dulles is known for his unchanging distrust of Communist promises. "Dulles," said England's liberal Manchester Guardian, "is creating for himself something of the reputation of a professional anti-Soviet, someone to whom every action by the Soviet government appears suspect or worse by reason of its origin rather than by its nature. That is a reputation which no one who is responsible for America's foreign relations can afford...
...devotee of fictional whodunits could plainly see that Scott did not murder his wife. Circumstantial evidence pointed to him, and in whodunits the suspect with the most evidence against him is never the murderer. Furthermore, there seemed to be no corpus delicti: in whodunits, corpus delicti means a corpse...
...feel that being sent to college is like being told they're going to be vice president," says one executive. "When it doesn't happen to them, they're disappointed." Others sulk if management does not readily accept their new ideas. Moreover, some companies suspect that the popularity of executive training, especially at universities, does not grow from corporate need at all, but is merely a long-delayed reaction to the idea that the average businessman is just an uncultured boob...
...student then telephoned the police and accompanied a policeman back to the Common. A Lexington man was arrested as a "likely suspect," the girl said, but she had not seen her attacker well enough to identify...