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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...innocent-seeming line of buoys, blazing away with machine guns. Four times the planes circled and dived, the machine guns hammering savagely. On the fifth dive, one plane fell at the rowboat. Its machine gun lashed the little craft with a whip of lead. One of the girls, Jean Chesterton, 17, fell dead, shot through. Her sister grabbed the oars, splashed frantically shoreward...
...coroner's jury inquest at Minster, Jean Chesterton's murderer, one John Boahemia, Birmingham mailcarrier, sometime Territorial volunteer gunner in the Royal Air Force, testified that he had mistaken the rowboat for one of the target buoys. It was his first flight with a loaded gun, he said. The jury gave in a verdict of "death by misadventure...
Married. Louis Untermeyer, 47, writer; and Esther Antin, Toledo's first woman lawyer; in Manhattan. In 1928 Poet Untermeyer, after divorcing his second wife, remarried his first wife, Poetess Jean Starr Untermeyer, '"because," said he, "I usually love her." Their redivorce was revealed in July...
...Died. Jean Malin, 25, female-impersonating master-of-ceremonies in Manhattan and Pacific Coast hotspots; when he accidentally backed his automobile off a pier into the sea; in Venice, Calif., few minutes after leaving the Venice Ship Club where an electric sign blazed: "Last Night of Jean Malin...
...seem like a story. The book is a collection of notes about the people whose lives touch Hallie Chambers, the Colonel's simple guide, "had a thin tough horse and wore buckskin pants . . . and a beaver cap. . . . The Colonel thought that at last he had discovered Jean Jacques' 'natural man'. . . ." Weiler, the innkeeper, told the Colonel and his Jesuit friend, Father Duchesne, about "the young man called Lazare who lived with the Indians but was white and remembered mobs and torches and the Revolution" and was supposed to be the Dauphin. Weiler's grandson...