Word: finale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were shocked to hear of Louis Greenfield's arrest for manslaughter. He had called in police and showed them how he chloroformed Jerry, now grown to a 17O-lb. six-footer. He explained that he had done it to put the boy out of misery and, as a final horror, because a doctor had warned him that the imbecile boy, whose body was grown and whose mental age was two, might attack his own mother...
Last week Maury Maverick's Mexicans mostly voted for him, the Negroes voted for Boss Quin, whites sprinkled their votes fairly evenly. In the final roundup, Maury Maverick was found to have succeeded his grandfather by 18,445 votes to 15,441 for Quin, 11,172 for Jeffers. Grandson Maury promptly took a pre-oath of office administered by his father, Albert Maverick, 86, standing in front of Grandfather Samuel's portrait (see cut). In with Maverick to replace the Quin machine go three out of four city commissioners, including bulky Louis Lipscomb, Princeton 1923 footballer, as fire...
...Chrysler and a Ford, were ready for Their Majesties and one toured Quebec's narrow crooked streets, testing sharp turns. Priests and nuns rehearsed 25,000 school children for a pageant of greeting to Their Majesties on the Plains of Abraham. Kiwanians, Rotarians, Knights of Columbus got final instructions in how to cheer. (Raise hat, give three lusty cheers. Then hold hat in the right hand over the left breast as Their Majesties pass by.) Cameraddicts were warned that they might: 1) take no flashlight pictures; 2) make no attempts to influence Their Majesties to watch the birdie...
Last week Generalissimo Francisco Franco held at Barajas Field, some eight miles from Madrid, a final review for the German, Italian and Spanish airmen who fought on his side in the war. Wearing the blue-grey uniform of the Spanish Air Force, flanked by his usual mounted Moorish guards, El Caudillo took the salute from 1,500 Italians of the Littorio Legion, 5,000 Germans of the Condor Legion, 3,500 Spaniards. To 15 German and eight Italian aviators he awarded the Spanish military medal. In a speech characterized by Latin expansiveness, the Generalissimo predicted that Spain's present...
...star side men in the band are Davey Malthews on also sax, who is a Benny Carter disciple, the pianoman, and Ralph Hawkins, the drummer. It's unfair to place final judgment on the band as it has only had a few months' shaping, but if it quiets down and indulges in a little more relaxed rhythm, the end-point ought to be damn good...