Word: turini
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...haired youth was edging his way up a fire-escape ladder high on the 19-story Kentucky Hotel. The climber reached the top, took a quick step and balanced erect on a narrow ledge at the roof level-just as a 19-year-old soldier who called himself Louis Turini had balanced on a narrow ledge of Boston's Touraine Hotel and threatened to jump one drizzly evening last June...
Once safe inside, he admitted that he was a soldier absent without leave. His name, he said, was Louis Turini. Startled, authorities wired Camp Pickett, Va., learned that the Boston ledge-walker had sneaked out of a hospital ward there a month before. Still unbelieving, they got a photograph of the Boston Turini.* He was the same...
...youth uses three names. He was christened Albert Santos. Due to a clerical error, he is enrolled in the Army as Albert Thomas. After both suicide threats, however, he gave the name Louis Turini...
Little by little the boy began to talk. His name was Louis Turini. No, his name was really Albert Santos. But they had misunderstood in the Army and put him down as Albert Thomas. Now he was AWOL-two weeks AWOL. He complained about his divorced parents, his boyhood in Boston's slums. He babbled in bewildered tones about a girl. "My girl ran off with a musician. He smokes marijuana. I know she's ruined...
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