Word: trails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...single episode of the Roy Rogers Show, "two men beat an old man . . . The old man is permanently blinded by the attack. Two men beat a dog about the head with a pistol . . . The men again attack the g as he is leading the old man on a mountain trail. The old man cries for help, tries to find the dog, and plunges over a cliff to his death on the rocks. A veterinarian who is a thief kills an injured companion with an injection of poison as the man lies in bed. The dog is doped, but attacks...
...weapons. In that way, said he, all reporters will get the stories at the same time. And classified information will not be revealed on an off-the-record basis as background material. ¶Defense's public-information officer, Andrew Berding, will no longer "protect" reporters on the trail of an exclusive story. In the past, when a reporter came to Berding's office to make the final check of an exclusive story, Berding gave the reporter information without making it general. He has gone on the theory that the hard-digging reporter was entitled to his beat. From...
...iron gates of Teheran prison opened one chilly afternoon last week and out stepped a killer, bearded fanatic Khalil Tahmassebi. Nearly two years ago he murdered Ali Razmara, Iran's ablest postwar Premier, and thus started Iran down its unhappy trail. Last week Tahmassebi was a free man, pardoned by Mossadegh's subservient Majlis and captive Shah. The young assassin promptly rushed to the Hazrat Abdolazim shrine, wept joyously and said: "When I killed Razmara, I was sure that his people would kill...
...speak Japanese. In 1940 he went to Japan to learn more about Buddhism, lived in a Buddhist monastery near Tokyo. Back in the U.S., he enlisted in the Army and was sent to the Philippines. Nothing in John Provoo's whole odd story was stranger than the tortuous trail which led him from a Japanese prison camp on Corregidor to a federal courtroom in New York's Foley Square, where he sat on trial last week for treason during wartime (maximum penalty: death...
...waiting in the steel and tar-paper structure-the largest indoor gathering ever assembled in Albuquerque. A Plymouth sedan drives up, and out of it steps the Rev. William Franklin (Billy) Graham, showman, salesman, pressagent, preacher- the hottest Protestant soul-saver since the late Billy Sunday quit the sawdust trail. Albuquerque last week had the honor of celebrating Billy Graham's birthday: he had just turned...