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Sculptor Hoffman is the daughter of the late great British Pianist Richard Hoffman who at the age of 18 was engaged by Phineas Taylor Barnum to tour the U. S. with Jenny Lind. Later Pianist Hoffman married one of his pupils, extremely Socialite Fidelia Lamson of Manhattan. A lifelong friend of Malvina Hoffman is Monologist Ruth Draper, with whom she used to play in the back yard of the Hoffman house on Manhattan's West 43rd St. It was while peering out of a front window from that same house that scrawny little Malvina first felt the surge...
Married. David Albert Lamson, 34, onetime Stanford University Press official, four times tried (1933-36) for murdering his first wife (TIME, April 13 et ante); and Ruth Smith Ranking, 33, cinemagazine writer; in Los Angeles. When California quashed its murder charge against him last April, he went to Hollywood to adapt his death-cell memoirs (We Who Are About...
This decision abruptly arrested a case which has kept California tongues wagging since Memorial Day 1933. That May morning a real estate agent and her client dropped in at the Lamson bungalow on the Stanford University campus in Palo Alto. They found Lamson stripped to the waist. He had been burning rubbish in the backyard. Telling his callers to wait until he got a shirt on, Lamson vanished into the house. A few minutes later he opened the front door, cried: "My God, my wife has been murdered." Rushing in, the agent and client found the nude, dead body...
...faithful and influential friends of the popular Lamson, sales manager of the Stanford University Press, this solution was a ghastly break of circumstantial evidence. They raised a defense fund, printed booklets denouncing the case as justice's greatest miscarriage, laid Mrs. Lamson's death to an accidental fall. After his conviction, Lamson went to the San Quentin Prison condemned row, pounded out his best-selling book, We Who Are About to Die. Trial No. 2, ordered by the State Supreme Court, resulted in a hung jury. Trial No. 3 was adjourned due to an irregularity in the venire...
Last week, when Superior Judge Joseph Jerome Trabucco saw no reason for a fourth trial and set him free, Lamson lost his calm, stumbled weeping from the courtroom to see his 5-year-old daughter, Allene Genevieve. Bashful at first in the presence of a person she scarcely knew, Allene soon dropped her shyness, clasped her father in her arms, cried: "Oh, Daddy, where are you going to sleep...