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Homeward bound from Spain was Flier Harold E. ("Whitey") Dahl, two years and seven months after his plane was shot down behind the Franco lines in the civil war. He became Nationalist Spain's best-known U. S. prisoner when his blonde dancer wife sent her picture with a plea for mercy to Francisco Franco and got the Generalissimo a lot of bad publicity by publishing his reply.† Said Edith Dahl in Philadelphia, where she is doing a Spanish dance number: "Maybe we'll settle down and raise a family." Also looking forward to Dahl...
...after blocking up the proceedings of the courts for several months, that it could never be enforced. As a matter of fact, he didn't even provide for its enforcement in his law. Maybe he even realized that most people would laugh at the Cambridge City Council and that Dahl would draw a cartoon about it. But Mickey wanted to get into the papers...
...chapter was last week tagged on to the saga of Harold E. Dahl, the U. S. aviator who fell into Rebel hands while fighting as a mercenary for the Loyalist Air Force in July 1937. Ambassador Claude Bowers, back from Spain for good, said that the famous letter Harold Dahl's pretty wife, Edith, wrote to Francisco Franco, enclosing an interesting picture of herself and begging clemency for her husband, never reached the very married Generalissimo. His staff officers handed the picture around and "passed judgment." according to the New York Daily News, "on this and that." Then they...
After a spectacular trial for "rebellion" again.t Franco's regime, Aviator Dahl was sentenced to death, immediately reprieved...
...city just could not get rid of him. Once, just before he was to be exchanged back to the Loyalists, he announced publicly: "I don't give a damn about a cause. I'm fighting for money." The Loyalists took someone else. And ever since, Harold E. Dahl has been Peck's Bad Boy in Salamanca. Reason why he stays where he is definitely unwanted: he is even more definitely wanted in Los Angeles on charges of having passed eight bad checks...