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...reporters were told how two uniformed radio car patrolmen, Joseph Mc-Clellan and Donald Shea, had spotted Willie tinkering with the battery of a 1951 Chevrolet on a street close to the station. "Hey," Shea recalled saying, "that looks like Willie the Actor." Turning, McClellan had answered: "Don, I think you're right." When braced, Willie had naturally denied his identity. But the two coppers, the commissioner delightedly made clear, had not been fooled...
Shea drove back to the station and got Third-Grade Detective Louis Weiner. Mc-Clellan kept watch. And in a few minutes the three closed in again and seized the glittering prize. "The best collar in recent years," said the commissioner. Beaming, the commissioner dramatically promoted both Shea and McClellan to first-grade detective with a $1,000-a-year raise...
Died. Mrs. Georgia Wade Mc-Clellan, 86, who sat on the platform during Lincoln's Gettysburg address; at Carroll, la. On her deathbed, imagining herself again a Civil War nurse, she said: "There's a soldier boy in there [the next room] who wants a letter written to his mother. He's wounded so badly he'll never live. I do wish you'd write...
Pole Vault--Won by Mc Clellan (University School); second, Fogg (Burlington); faird, tie between Harvey (Andover), Vail (Andover), Richardson (Dean), and Clark (Exeter), Height 11ft...
...teams, which competed Saturday, won seventh and eight places, beating 17 and 18 schools respectively. B. Connors from Allan Chalmers was second in both the shot and the discus, while D. Mc Clellan of the University School, Cleveland, Ohio, captured first place in the pole vault at 11 feet. Were it not for the strictness of the H. A. A. another one man team might have participated. Early Saturday morning a youth entered the H. A. A. office, saying that he happened to be passing through Boston that day and would like to enter in every event of the meet...