Word: kidnapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wife heard him repeat the details of a hurry-call for his services; then Dr. Kelley drove away in his car. He did not return that night, nor the next day. . . . Soon St. Louis papers blared their favorite, almost their stereotyped headline: Kid-napped? It was St. Louis' 13th kidnap case in 16 months; and, as in the case of 13-year-old Adolphus Busch Orthwein (TIME, Jan. 19 et ante}, a wealthy and prominent victim. (Mrs. Kelley is a daughter of the late William Cullen McBride, rich...
...that includes Marguerite Churchill and Sally Eilers, the whole thing is dull, chiefly because of an incoherence brought on by bad dialog and an attempt to cover too much action in program time. Typical shot: Spencer Tracy and his gang starting out in silk hats and morning suits to kidnap a bride...
...Louis kidnap case little Adolphus was secretly restored to his parents only 20 hours after his disappearance. Possibly through his own friendship-or that of his managing editor, Frank W. Taylor-with the Busch family, Reporter Brundidge learned that the name of Pearl Abernathy, a local Negro real estate dealer, had been mentioned in the Busch household. Next day the Star blazed out its first scoop: "Negro Real Estate Man Exposes Own Son [Charles] As Abductor." Also it printed nearly a full front page of pictures of the room where the boy had been held. Next day Reporter Brundidge...
...Star's opposition took its defeat in the Busch case bitterly, the Times reputedly discharging three reporters for falling down. The Globe Democrat man had even talked to the elder Abernathy, but could not make him talk "kidnap." The Post-Dispatch had assigned its own No. i newsman, and one not often bested -John T. Rogers...
...most potent personalities is big, athletic, round-faced Colonel Luke Lea. At 51 he is already wrapped in a cocoon of legend: the man who, at 32, was the youngest U. S. Senator ever to sit legally; who, a fighting colonel of field artillery, nearly completed an attempt to kidnap the Kaiser from a castle in Holland as a Christmas gift to President Wilson. With Banker-Promoter Rogers Clark Caldwell, he bought the Memphis Commercial Appeal and Appeal (evening) for $3,600,000 in 1927, the Knoxville Journal in 1928 to add to his Nashville Tennesseans (morning and evening); also...