Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Home-Town Boys. The Kutis Funeral Home first became a soccer patron 15 years ago when some boys asked it to sponsor their team. Fearing mayhem, Kutis and his father gloomily agreed, saw their stark pessimism confirmed when a boy broke his leg before even a ghoul was scored. They dropped the team, but five years ago Tom Kutis decided to try again. He built his championship team exclusively from home-town St. Louis boys, although at times he has hired a European coach. "We don't import players," says Kutis. "St. Louis boys fit in better with...
...scene of the murders, and pulled out a bloody butcher knife. Kitchell rushed to his boss. Police Chief Warren Norman, with the killer's weapon and an idea of his own: instead of calling the usual press conference, why not put the knife back and ask the town's newsmen to cooperate in a ruse? Springfield's two TV stations, two newspapers and four radio stations agreed to go along, arid next day all of them announced: "Springfield's police will begin an inch-by-inch search of the murder scene at 2 p.m. tomorrow, looking...
...five men. At 10:30 p.m. a man slid out of the shadows, looked cautiously up and down, then snaked an arm under the icehouse loading dock. Out jumped the cops. "Who-me?" cried the flustered man. "Why, I'm just waiting to catch a freight out of town...
Since the public schools of Kansas City, Mo. were integrated four years ago, the board of education has tried to hush up ugly racial incidents. But parents heard stories from their children, and the word soon got around town: in a few schools, white and Negro pupils were living by gangland rule. One ominous piece of supporting evidence: police cars kept daily watch on certain schools when the children arrived and left...
...week police announced that the quiet boy was in the Hennepin County Jail. The night after he wrote his theme, he had gone quietly into his parents' bedroom, wounded both with two blasts from a shotgun. Then he drove off in the family car 80 miles out of town until his conscience caught up with him, and he gave himself...