Word: sleuth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, April 6, 1931) which brought in 4.000 fan letters a week. Since last November Dr. Spaeth has been broadcasting as the "Tune Detective" in a 15-min. program (Tuesdays at 10 p. m. E. D. S. T.). Last week he added a new one, the "Song Sleuth" (Thursdays, 8:15 p.m.). NBC sustains them both but hopes for sponsors...
Last week Song Sleuth Spaeth turned to song lyrics, dealing in his first program with animal lyrics. Greatest and most universal of these, said he, is "Frog Went a-Courtin'," which is paralleled in the current "Wedding Party of Mickey Mouse...
...Wilmington, N. C., Deputy Sheriff T. Hargrove studied and studied to solve the murder of Richard Lacewell, a Negro found shot to death. He remembered a detective story sleuth who deduced his man from the picture of the slayer that the dead man's eyeballs had retained. Sleuth Hargrove photographed the dead man's eyes, enlarged the photographs, beheld a likeness of another Negro, one Tyman Graham. Confirming science, Suspect Graham confessed. Said Sleuth Hargrove: "Knowledge is power," not knowing that the human eyeball retains in death no picture whatever...
...served with the German spy system in the U. S., once received $1,000,000 from a German agent at a midnight rendezvous in Trinity Churchyard, Manhattan. Further in his past lies an astounding record of crime and near-crime. At one time or another, Gaston Means, a sleuth by profession, has been indicted for breach of promise, impersonating an officer, fraud, bribery, forgery, murder. He once told a Senate committee that ''being indicted" was his business. Last November he was arrested for beating his wife...
Died. William John Burns, 70, sleuth, founder of Burns National Detective Agency, onetime director of the U. S. Bureau of Investigation ("Secret Service") ; of heart disease; in Sarasota, Fla. Son of a Columbus, Ohio, police commissioner, he gained fame as an amateur detective on local cases, joined the Secret Service as a counterfeiting investigator. But it was Detective Burns's exposures of the Department of Interior's Oregon land & lumber frauds during the Rooseveltian muckraking era, and of Boss Abe Ruef's corruption of San Francisco, that brought him to fame. With a handful of sawdust...