Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meanwhile, as his past unfolded in the press. Refugee Morton-Stewart was blazing a glittering, champagne-splashed trail. In Paris, he enchanted the café set with a series of brilliant parties at a little bistro in the Rue Pierre Charron. But when detectives, spurred on by the travel agency, in Birmingham, arrived to check up on "the gay Englishman." he had disappeared. The travel agency did not say why they wanted Morton-Stewart, only that they were "most anxious to trace him." It was not hard. Soon afterward he checked into Rome's Hotel Excelsior as Horace Albert...
Recent heavy snowfall has produced the best skiing conditions at Williams in three years. Downhill racers compete this morning on the Thunderbolt Trail, covered by over a foot of snow...
...else they're earnest. You can tell this type because they refuse a cocktail at noon and always rush off to the slopes like Greta Garbo-"I vant to be alone!" They do parallel christies all the way down the slope, stand at the bottom and examine the trail they left, and then climb on the tow again with a determined expression, swearing softly...
Newsmen charged that to throw them off the trail prison officials sent a closed van through the prison gate as a decoy. Then, under cover of darkness, they slipped May out. Not until a convict inside the prison blew his breath on the ice-cold windowpane and wrote with his finger GONE, did the reporters waiting outside know that May had been released and they had missed him. Said a terse prison announcement later that morning: "[We] can inform you gentlemen that May has been discharged. That...
...Trail. By last month, the only damaging bit of testimony left was that a coat found in the stolen car belonged to Silas Rogers. When an Argosy legman found and questioned the man who had given the testimony, the witness changed his story: on second thought, said he, Rogers' coat was brown, whereas the one found in the car was blue. Last week, just two days before Christmas, Governor Battle signed a pardon, and Silas Rogers, after nine years behind bars, stepped from the Virginia State Penitentiary a free man. Wrote Editor Kilpatrick: "It is, for this newspaper...