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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lawyer. In 1919 he started a modest law practice, earning about $35 a month. Soon (1921) he found himself in the limelight of Seattle's famous Mahoney trunk murder. His client. James A. Mahoney, was convicted and hanged, but every crime-reading family in the Northwest knew of Lew Schwellenbach's fight to save...
...Baca was usually enough to calm any New Mexican desperado. As the country quieted, Elfego studied law, became county clerk, district attorney, school superintendent, mayor of Socorro. As a prosecutor, he sent many murderers to their deaths. As a defense attorney, he won acquittal for 19 out of 20 clients charged with murder. One story (probably apocryphal): a client wired him from Albuquerque that he was in jail charged with stealing a car in California. From El Paso, Baca reportedly wired back: "Will be there in the morning with three eyewitnesses...
...amiable, balding son, Van Guelder Okie, sold the last 16,000 of Lost Cabin's sheep. By last month only 14 people remained on the ranch and in the town. Realtor Ben Scherck had scores of queries from interested people, but doubted that they would buy (one hopeful client believed the ranch could be converted into a helicopter factory). Most would also find the price ($125,000) a little steep. Last week Scherck got tick fever, retired to his bed, groaning, "God, I ache all over." But he brightened at a visit from a rough, rich Texas cattleman...
...arranged to have the remains of Admiral Dewey dug up and placed under its nave, a freshman employe of Tamblyn & Brown was so impressed that he immediately got off an office memorandum suggesting that the firm keep its eye on ex-President William Howard Taft (then alive) for its client, the Cathedral of St. John the Divine...
...days after the hardboiled, sardonically titled Farewell, My Lovely (TIME, Dec. 18) opened in Minneapolis, Audience Research Inc., a Gallup offshoot, persuaded its client RKO to change the title. Reasons: the old title was confusing, unattractive to murder mystery addicts. The new, informative, alluring title: Murder, My Sweet...