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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...
...Across the Atlantic, our only check, at Kasserine Pass [North Africa], was with our troops under foreign command. The blunders in Italy were not American blunders. The landing in Normandy was under command of General Montgomery, and General Bradley's famous breakthrough at St. Ló came only after the original plan of campaign had failed. Thereafter, all the victories, offensive and defensive, in France, Belgium and Germany were exclusively American victories...
...behind a pillar with his bow until handsome Jason strode into the King of Colchis' palace. Then Eros shot Medea, the King's daughter, through the heart, and the love-smitten princess helped to get the Fleece from her father's temple. Mythology's most famous voyage had reached its goal, but Author Graves takes 150 more pages to wind things...
...Most famous jazz spot in pre-war Boston was the old Theatrical Club, corner of Warrenton and Tremont, where beginning in 1937 after-hour highballs were served to the accompaniment of Bobby Hackett's band. The "real" jazz school might claim that an instrumentation of two tenors, even though abetted by Brad Gowns' slide trombone and Hackett's horn, wasn't conducive to good music--but, then, the liquor wasn't too good, either...
Showman Elman (who gets people like Kathleen Winsor, Helen Jepson and Ac tress Elissa Landi to add atmosphere) sells mostly curios of the famous and infamous. Samples: Adolf Hitler's dice ($150); Thomas Alva Edison's personal dental chair ($300) ; a spoon made by Paul Revere ($105); Mark Twain's portable writing desk ($125); a dagger owned by Rudolph Valentino ($200); a letter from Field Marshal Rommel to his wife, dated October 1943, which read: "Russian campaign going well. . . . Americans not ready...