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Spectacular Rogue: Gaston B. Means, by Edwin P. Hoyt. He could have lived in splendor on the take from just one of his spectacular swindles, but for Means the joy of a lie was in living it, so he conned the rich (mostly women) the slow, dramatic...
SPECTACULAR ROGUE: GASTON B. MEANS by Edwin P. Hoyt. 352 pages. Bobbs-Merrill...
...grand character, but he was a fiction. Gaston Bullock Means, however, was for real. When he died at 59 in 1938, he was justifiably reckoned to be just about the most preposterous liar and swindler ever to smile at a sucker. In Spectacular Rogue, Author-Journalist Edwin Hoyt examines that certain smile with more journalistic competence than stylistic flair. Still, Gaston Means himself would be pleased...
Sixteen year-old Dickie An Hoyt proved the most exciting skier in the tournament by winning the girls' sialom and trick events. Her total of 288 trick points was only 10 points off her three week-old record...
...girls' slalom, Dicksie Ann Hoyt could very well break a world record in her class. She has run through the course at 34 m.p.h. with 18 feet off, picking up five of six possible points. She will, however, be hard pressed by Suzanne and Barbara Bonin...