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Died. William Carpender ("Crazy Willie") Stevens, 70, codefendant with Brother Henry, Sister Frances, in the famed Hall-Mills murder trial of 1926; eleven days after Sister Frances' death; in New Brunswick, N.J. The three defendants were acquitted of the Lovers' Lane murder of the sister's husband, the Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall, and his paramour, Mrs. Eleanor Mills. "Willie," a large, pudgy, fuzzy-haired, simple-minded bachelor who liked to wear a fireman's helmet and hang around the firehouse, was counted on by the prosecution to spoil the defense's case when he testified...
Died. Mrs. Frances Noel Stevens Hall, 68, principal figure in the most exploited murder trial of the '20s, the Hall-Mills case; in New Brunswick, N.J. For weeks in 1926 as many as half a million words a day were written by reporters about the trial. She and her two brothers were tried and acquitted of the murder of her husband, the Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall, seven years younger than she, and his choir leader (and mistress), Mrs. Eleanor Mills, 33, wife of the sexton, who were found shot to death in a lovers' lane. Plump, dignified, pince...
Solomon Grundy. In Chicago, Brunswick A. Bagdon, lover of rare roast beef, returned from a trip in which he was refused it in Manhattan on meatless Tuesday, in Washington on meatless Wednesday, in Cincinnati on meatless Thursday. At home he ate fish on Friday, looked forward to Saturday...
...good old days people used to know of Mildred Bailey even if they didn't make a point of buying her records. Not a month went by without at least two of her vocals coming out on Vocalion or Brunswick. Now, having produced no records in the past year, less than a dozen the year before, Mildred is fast becoming one of the most unheard and unappreciated artists in the business...
Altogether Mildred made at least fifty Vocalions and Brunswicks, nearly every one a gem. On Brunswick she sang the better songs of the day with husband Red Norvo's baud. It was on Vocalion, though, that Mildred really cut loose and made an epic series of records. She had everything her own way. She sang old songs, new ones, anything good. For accompaniment she got the best musicians available. Some of them, like Teddy Wilson, Artic Shaw, Chu Berry are well known; others, like Hank d'Amico, Chris Griffin are not. But the most ignominious musician on her dates complemented...