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Mary Thomas, apathetic, bespectacled and 27, said she was born in Elizabeth, N. J., left school at 17, did factory and house work for six years, then married and had two children. When her husband died three years ago she went on New York streets to support her children. She earned, she said, $100 to $150 per week. After she went in "houses," however, the various deductions left her only $75 to $125 per week. "Which did you prefer," asked an attorney, "the streets or the houses...
Prostitutes and Madams arrested in a series of raids last February were the State's chief witnesses. First on the stand was Renee Gallo, 25, a pert, dark Italian who said she was born in New York, moved to Philadelphia at 8, first surrendered to a man at 18, took to the streets when he deserted her five years later. After six months a madam named Mollie introduced her to a booker named Pete. "Mollie says, 'This is the new girl, Renee.' And I says, 'Hello.' And Pete says, 'Wanna work steady...
Trim, well-groomed Dorothy Arnold, 24, also known as Doris Sherman and Dixie, insisted that she had never prostituted herself. Virginia-born, she left school at 14, eloped at 17 with a carnival man. In New York he made a living sefling gowns and lingerie, then took to opium and retired. Meantime a girl she knew had begun bringing men to her apartment. Soon Dorothy Arnold took up this kind of entertaining as a livelihood. Once she tried to operate without bookers, found she could get no girls. Her girls, she said, charged whatever a man would pay, usually...
Lucian Fletcher was born in 1824 at Lynchburg, Va., where he passed a harum-scarum life which came to its first climax when he became involved in a disgraceful shooting scrape. To save his skin, his father, a well-to do planter, packed Son Lucian off over the Blue Ridge into what is now West Virginia. And to care for this handsome but troublesome son, Planter Fletcher sent along two slaves, Arch and Mary...
Lord Allenby brought his military reputation through the War with less damage than most of his peers. Born of an untitled Yorkshire family, he entered the Army after flunking Indian Civil Service examinations. Having proved himself a cool, competent bush fighter in Bechuanaland, Zululand and the Boer War, he was a major general in command of all British cavalry by 1914. Flanders was no place for horsemen. His career was nearly wrecked by the slaughter of his cavalry at the battle of Arras in 1917. Two months later he was sent to see what he could do about the situation...