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...Danahy, Beaver Brown and John A's Hidden Secret--Jonathan Swift...
...childhood and the source of his nickname in a bestselling book about his spy exploits. FBI agents also suspected that Boyce was involved in a series of bank robberies in the Pacific Northwest. A suspicious title switch on a boat license turned up the name Anthony E. Lester, of Beaver, a small town 50 miles west of Port Angeles. The photograph on Lester's driver's license resembled Boyce-and the man snapped on bank film during at least one holdup. The investigators descended on Beaver and learned that Lester had bought a 30-ft. boat...
...bridge that morning after another policeman had reported a loud splashing sound. Lieut. J.T. Campbell testified that he had helped recover Cater's body from the river two days later. In crossexamination, Williams' attorneys tried to show that the splash could have been made by a beaver. Later, Welcome pointed out that "no one even saw Williams' car stop that night on the bridge." Throwing the 146-lb. Cater from a moving automobile, she said, would have been virtually impossible...
...with the enthusiastic help of the town's Chamber of Commerce, invested the "pantheon"-a small concrete structure in a cornfield-with a rusty barbecue grill, some worn-out tires, and pictures of such dull heroes as William Bendix, Hugh Beaumont (the father in Leave It to Beaver), Alan Hale Jr. (the skipper in Gilligan 's Island) and Walter Mondale...
...failed his first bar exam. When he walks into the courtroom, he sports snakeskin cowboy boots, a knee-length beaver coat and a ten-gallon Stetson. His outside interests have included selling bull semen. During one trial, he kept an intriguing box on the table in front of him. The contents: the embalmed leg his plaintiff had lost in the accident at issue. He won some $300,000 in damages...