Word: jakes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...varsity men the schedule is even more strenuous. Footballers labor six afternoons a week, generally watched by "Jake" Fitch himself, who has never forgotten his own athletic undergraduate days. Not counted in any of this are hours of regular marching and drilling, and the hours of extra duty...
...have graduated since the Academy's founding, 15,000 are still alive (only some 2,400 had graduated by 1900). Among them are the commander in chief, U.S. Fleet, the chief of the Navy's Bureau of Personnel, who are directly responsible for Academy policies. (Jake Fitch only administers.) Academy alumni are admirals and captains-the holders of almost all the worthwhile jobs in the Navy-who have learned new doctrines fighting World War II, whose ideas directly and indirectly influence U.S. naval policy. They are also, in group, the men who studiously kept the Navy command plums...
Louise Peete was arrested, charged with murder. She kept her calm assurance. At the trial, she did not testify. An all-male jury was moved to sympathy, even after hearing that she had forged Jake Denton's name on checks. When they convicted her of murder, they recommended a life sentence instead of death...
...bank teller challenged the signature of the vanished Margaret Logan on a check. Police questioned Louise, as they had 24 years before. Detectives searched the house, as they had searched Jake Denton's. The cellar floor was untouched. But near an avocado tree in the backyard they found a mound of earth. Inside was the body of Margaret Logan. She had been shot in the back...
...once again Louise Peete was convicted of first-degree murder. This time there was no recommendation for mercy. Last week, on the 25th anniversary of Jake Denton's death, Louise Peete was sentenced to her own in California's gas chamber. Back in jail she smiled sadly, told her adoring friends: "It goes without saying ... I have never killed or even harmed a human being. . . . But truth is elusive...