Word: downington
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Dates: during 1935-1935
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...Near Downington, Pa., in the Indian Run farmhouse of Henry Huddleston Rogers III, grandson of one of the founders of Standard Oil, servants heard a shot one evening, ran upstairs to Mr. Rogers' bedroom. Lying on the floor with a bullet hole in her temple, a pearl-handled revolver at her feet, was Evelyn Hoey, honey-blonde torchsinger (Fifty Million Frenchmen). When police arrived they found Actress Hoey dead, Host Rogers stumbling drunkenly about the front lawn muttering about his "sweetheart." Told that Rogers & Hoey had spent the day in alcoholic bickering, police clapped Host Rogers and a male house...
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