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...Found More Skeleton." The scheme that finally got Con Man Moore was his "Lost Wheelbarrow Mine." To help promote it, in 1936, he used one of the most spectacular stunts in the long history of mine frauds. He got an unsuspecting partner to tell the story to millions of prospects all at once on the nationwide radio program, We the People...
...prove her point the phone rang..."Certainly, Mrs. Williamson, I remember you, yes, I think we con get someone to take your baby this week. Have a good time." Seeing I was slightly bewildered, she explained, "She's a darling, finally taking a vacation, wants another Harvard wife to take care of her baby; but that kind of a thing is just part...
Earl Wilson, a leading proponent of the female figure, writes a syndicated column on night-life on and off Broadway. It is not known whether he will take the pro or con on the American Girl...
...City Is Dark (Warner) is a cops & robbers movie that captures some of the hard-hitting realism of the early-'30s gangster pictures. It spins a familiar yarn about a reformed ex-con (well played by Hoofer Gene Nelson in a nondancing role) whose past catches up with him when an escaped San Quentin prisoner (Ted De Corsia) tries to force him to join in a bank heist. This time the cop is a hard-eyed, tough-fisted police sergeant (Sterling Hayden...
...where blood flowed almost as freely as beer. Grandma lived near by, pretending to be deaf yet privy to every racket within miles. Wilma had eight children, none legitimate. Fred, during a turn at the reform school, ate a tin of nails to spite the superintendent. Clarrie was a con man and the family intellectual: "It's a sort of poetry," he said, "to read over the names of race horses...