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...people died in the search for her body. Then Ma Kennedy began to receive ransom notes from alleged kidnapers, and their language read suspiciously like Aimee's own phrasemaking. Finally, 36 days after she disappeared, Aimee reappeared early one morning in the Mexican border town of Agua Prieta, babbling that she had escaped from her kidnapers and wandered all day and night in the desert heat. But her shoes were unscuffed, and she was neither sweaty nor thirsty after her ordeal. Nor was she ever able to point out the shack in which she claimed to have been imprisoned...
...Aires' downtown Avenida de Mayo, colored lights, bunting and comic posters went up in preparation for a municipal jamboree. In Uruguay, practical jokers would soon be in full frolic on Montevideo's streets. In Lima, everybody battened down for a soaking, giggling weekend of indoor juegos con agua (water fights...
Since no U.S. tracks operate on Sunday, the two dead-heat kids spent Dec. 31 on foreign tracks. Culmone flew from Miami to Cuba's Oriental Park, rode in all eight races and booted home 3 winners. Shoemaker hopped a plane from New Orleans to Mexico's Agua Caliente, rode in eleven races there, also got home with 3 winners. Result: a triple dead heat with Miller...
...clerk of the scales at New Orleans' City Park. Later he worked as judge, steward, entry clerk, bookkeeper, and finally handicapper at tracks from Agua Caliente to Winnipeg, in 1935 was picked as racing secretary for the New York tracks...
Putts on the Rug. In 1932 he struck out for Los Angeles with $75 and big ideas about making the winter tour. A month later he was back in Fort Worth, broke. The following winter, he went west again, got as far as the Agua Caliente Open (where he won no prize money) and the Phoenix Open (where he picked up $50). He had turned in some good scores for 18 holes, but he had no consistency. It taught him one lesson: "There's no such thing as one good shot in big-time golf. They all have...