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...this year's Davis Cup team); as soon as he cooled off, Ted was on the long-distance phone saying, "I just wrote you a letter . . . don't open it." Another time, he was about to pull into the driveway of his new home at La Crescenta, Calif, when a car whizzed by at terrific speed. Schroeder tore after it, forced the driver to a halt, and told him: "Look, brother, I got a wife and a kid and a dog . . . don't drive 60 miles an hour past my house again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Advantage Kramer | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

...missing, while officials, friends, family fumbled in the dark to make contact with his abductors. On the fifth day police traced telephone calls to a Los Angeles apartment, arrested one James Kirk and a woman who said she was his wife. Kirk sent them to a house in La Crescenta, few miles from the Arcadia estate. There they seized two other suspects, let one slip away. But they found and held fast to unharmed William F. Gettle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Snatch Findings | 5/21/1934 | See Source »

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