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Linemen who are back from the wars include ends Walter Roberts and Leo Troy, centers Chet Yablonski and Phil Nolan, and John DeGangi, Ted Strojny, John Fentana, and Gene Spinelli. Coaches Chief Boston and Harold Kopp, who scouted the Holy Cross eleven last Saturday, rate Roberts and Jim Dickleman as two of the finest ends they have seen. The rest of the line is rugged enough, as evidenced by the 35 yards net Syracuse gained against them last week...

Author: By Irvin M. Horowitz, | Title: Lining Them Up | 10/24/1946 | See Source »

Some of them had seen "the Duchess" when she entered San Quentin, a fox-faced, shabby murderess, bound for death in a gas chamber. Through the cell blocks the grapevine carried her story: that she (Juanita Spinelli), her common-law husband, Mike Simeone, and Thug Gordon Hawkins had drugged and drowned a gangster. Later another bulletin: a 30-day reprieve for the three by Governor Culbert Olson. Later still: "She's going to sniff it [lethal gas] just the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Chivalry in San Quentin | 7/28/1941 | See Source »

Fiction FROM JUNGLE ROOTS-Marcos Spinelli -Covici-Friede ($2.50). The education of a Brazilian jungle aristocrat, who at twelve is an accomplished and uninhibited knife-thrower, horseman, liar and seducer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Aug. 15, 1938 | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

Born in the Matto Grosso jungle, 32-year-old Author Spinelli, now a U. S. citizen, draws on his own boyhood for good jungle descriptions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Aug. 15, 1938 | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

...Academy of Arts is a personable blonde of 23 with a questing nose and a passion for self improvement: Eleanor Verande. Her life has not been dull. At 15 she had a job in two of the swankest Paris night clubs, Le Perroquet and Florida, giving imitations of Spinelli. Yvonne Printemps and Mistinguette, in French. At 16 she was Premiere Danseuse of the Lyon opera and at the season's end was dragged through the streets of Edouard Herriot's home town by 20 hysterical Frenchmen, dressed as U. S. sailors and shouting "Vive la Poup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Barter Academy | 4/17/1933 | See Source »

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