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Pearl never bothered to ask La Rue who the jewel thief was. But La Rue could have told her. In the days when he used his real name, Al Rocco, he had married the pretty secretary, gone to live with her in her parents' home in Brooklyn. They had no trouble until his wife began to grill him about his past (he had served a year for car theft). Then she sent him packing...
Week after week, Rocco had called his wife's office to threaten her. He hung like a shadow around her home neighborhood. One day he poked a gun in her ribs, drove her to a mountain resort where he kept her stripped for three days. He pleaded to let him come back. She refused. One day, a shot ripped through the kitchen window of his wife's home and hit her in the thigh...
Follow that Woman. When he gave Pearl the new camera he had made, Rocco-La Rue told Pearl to go to Brooklyn and follow the jewel woman on her way to work. For Pearl the subway ride was more thrilling than anything she had ever read. She went over her instructions -wait until the train reaches Manhattan's Times Square Station, then shoot the picture at hip level, and beat...
...Rocco did not answer her. She was muttering to herself: "He can have me now if he wants...
...Jumbos, who gave Coach Floyd Stahl's combination considerable grief last season before succumbing, Coach Fred "Fish" Ellis will start an experienced lineup. Forwards and co-captains Rocco Antonelli and Eddie Ham were regular on pre-war Tufts teams, and guards Bob Cooney and Earle Tryder are also Medford veterans. The probable starting center, Lee Kolankiewicz, is a talented Freshman...