Word: shainmark
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Eliezer ("Lou") Shainmark, 75, ingenious Hearst newspaper editor; after a long illness; in The Bronx. While night editor of the New York Journal-American in 1934, Shainmark suggested comparing handwriting samples of Suspect Bruno Richard Hauptmann with ransom notes of the kidnaper of Charles Lindbergh's slain 20-month-old son. The result was the first concrete evidence against Hauptmann, who was later convicted, and a triumph for Shainmark...
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