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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some of them had seen "the Duchess" when she entered San Quentin, a fox-faced, shabby murderess, bound for death in a gas chamber. Through the cell blocks the grapevine carried her story: that she (Juanita Spinelli), her common-law husband, Mike Simeone, and Thug Gordon Hawkins had drugged and drowned a gangster. Later another bulletin: a 30-day reprieve for the three by Governor Culbert Olson. Later still: "She's going to sniff it [lethal gas] just the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Chivalry in San Quentin | 7/28/1941 | See Source »

...brass-buttoned, forest-green tanker's uniform, which he designed, and which made the Second Division nicknamed him Flash Gordon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY: Test in the Field | 6/30/1941 | See Source »

...track and field meets, a bottleholder at prize fights, ran a gymnasium in Brooklyn and a saloon called "The Sparrow Nest" on Park Row, was once made "athletic editor of the New York Sun." A Y.M.C.A. athletic director in France during A.E.F. days, he was hired by James Gordon Bennett as sportswriter on the Paris Herald...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Dead Sparrow | 6/23/1941 | See Source »

...Barton Harvey, Jr. 73 David A. Goldthwait 68 Willard Nicholl 68 Chester W. Jenks 58 John Richardson, Jr. 57 Dana Reed 53 John E. Sawhill 51 Andrew E. Rice 49 Bruce Barton, Jr. 46 John M. Bullitt 46 Donald E. McNichol 16 David E. Place 44 Gordon W. Lyle 41 George E. Putnam, Jr. 38 George R. Clay 35 John R. Abbot, Jr. 31 John C. Bullard 29 Henry R. Heyburn 28 Paul C. Sheeline 25 John H. Page 18 Charles S. Putnam 17 *Elected Total Junior Votes Cast 462 Total Sophomore Votes Cast...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Election Results | 6/6/1941 | See Source »

...Lyle, W. Gordon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDENT COUNCIL NOMINATIONS | 6/4/1941 | See Source »

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