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...schoolmarm named Edith Maxwell testified last week in the courthouse at Wise, Va. that such was the innocent beginning of the fatal night of July 20, 1935. The trial judge, a jurist of 76 with stand-up collar around his wrinkled neck and a toothpick poised thoughtfully in the right-hand corner of his mouth, nodded encouragingly. The crowd, native to that end of Virginia which is just across the Cumberland Mountains from Kentucky, solemnly waited to see what the "Gov'ment" would do to a gal who stayed out late and killed her pappy...
Just on the stroke of midnight in an underground barbershop in Times Square, Martin Krompier, Flegenheimer's right-hand man, found himself staring at a figure with a drawn gun. The gunman blew a hole in the ceiling to warn other occupants of the shop to scatter. Then he plugged Krompier four times...
...bucking Colonel Hammond ever since the latter became board chairman. Last year Madison Square Garden did not run at a loss as it did the year before. That it has nonetheless lost most of its prestige in pugilism is due largely to the efforts of Rickard's onetime right-hand man, Ticket Speculator Mike Jacobs, who this year set up, with Hearst newspaper backing, his Twentieth Century Sporting Club, which has no indoor arena. Its big outdoor fights are staged in Manhattan baseball parks, in which Madison Square Garden held the boxing franchise until it built its own outdoor...
Born in 1883, a onetime New York World reporter who got into the cinema business in 1914, Producer Sheehan was right-hand man to William Fox when that ambitious onetime garment worker was building up his topheavy theatre chain. When Fox was ousted, fat, jolly Producer Sheehan remained, on such good terms with Mr. Fox's enemies that, instead of losing his job as the studio's production head, he held it through two reorganizations. In 1932, when he had the nervous breakdown which is often another Hollywood euphemism for an ousting, it looked as if Producer Sheehan...
...happened until June 21 when Brother Al got a toothache. He stood the pain for four days, then lanced the abscessed tooth himself with the aid of radio instructions from a local dentist. The Key Brothers' next difficulty came on June 25 when they were warned that the right-hand landing wheel had gradually deflated, making an eventual landing precarious...