Word: suspects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doesn't come to a bad end: the solution is tolerably ingenious. But it comes to it by a tedious route in a pretty lumbering conveyance. The Scotland Yard man furthermore insists on going over every inch of the way; and the lovers, both of whom are understandably suspect, become understandably and loquaciously suspicious of each other. The whole thing is blameless enough. But it remains a terribly staid, genteel British whodunit that almost never sets the brain aracing, the spine atingle or the mouth agape...
However, Thompson stated that he still does "not have any evidence that would lead him to suspect foul play...
Retail Trouble. It was certainly not true, as some people in the U.S. seemed to suspect, that the Army had failed to prepare for Korea's dreadful winter. Quartermasters in the U.S. and in the field had started planning for it last July. By last week enough winter wear for all U.S. troops had been laid down in Korean supply dumps, with some left over for R.O.K. units. But, as one officer explained, although "wholesale distribution" had been attended to, there was still trouble with "retail distribution." The primitive, war-damaged North Korean roads were clogged with other supplies...
...Dear!", the picture on the inside cover of Pageant's December issue showed Union Boss John L. Lewis on the telephone, apparently speaking to his wife. Said the cut lines: "Mr. Lewis has a wife. So have a handful of other such overpowering gentlemen you'd never suspect of matrimony. You can meet the Mrs. in this issue." Sure enough, included in Pageant's two-page gallery of "wives of famous men" was a portrait of Mrs. John L. Lewis. What Pageant had forgotten was that Mrs. Lewis died on Sept...
Analyzing the transcripts, Editor Gilbert finds that Hitler "left hardly any freedom to his field commanders" and that his "first reaction to any suggestion of a withdrawal was invariably to suspect that it was motivated by lack of courage, and that his most usual attitude . . was to reject [it] offhand." But his generals' postwar charge that he "acted entirely by intuition . . . was inaccessible to rational considerations and did not brook contradiction ... is [not] borne out by these documents...