Word: reno
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...returned with a manuscript for a full-length book. Another boy cycled from Ontario to California, making his way by giving radio interviews. He was attacked by a bull, sideswiped by a car; he witnessed eight automobile accidents and saw a man shoot his wife in the streets of Reno...
Divorced. Robert Nathan, 57, poet and novelist (Portrait of Jennie, One More Spring); by Janet Bingham Nathan, 40, his fourth wife; in Reno...
Divorced. Robert Penn Warren, 46, Rhodes scholar, poet turned professor, and Pulitzer Prize novelist (All the King's Men); and Emma Brescia Warren, fortyish; after almost 21 years of marriage; in Reno...
...late 1860s, just about the time Jesse James was blossoming in the Midwest, the four Reno boys were shooting up the area with a vigor that set a pattern for all outlaw brotherhoods to come. Though sadly neglected by folklore and Hollywood, the Reno boys were more original than the James or Younger brothers; they were the first to stage a train robbery in the U.S. (near Seymour, Ind. on the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad), and once they burned an entire town (Rockford, Ind.) just so they could buy up its land for a bargain...
Presidential Plot. The Reno escapades form the opening salvo in the drumfire of bandit tales Authors Horan and Swiggett have let loose in their history of Pinkerton's National ("We Never Sleep") Detective Agency. The Pinkerton Story reads too much like a collection of Sunday-supplement pieces, but the raw material survives anything writers...