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Died. Reginald William Lockerbie Spooner, 60, Britain's best-known real-life sleuth and chief of Scotland Yard detectives since 1958, whose most celebrated case was the 1946 capture of Sex Murderer Neville Heath, and most recent assignment was the Great Train Robbery; of cancer; in London...
...after the Giants had clinched the pennant, they faced a young Dodger lefty named Karl Spooner. He fanned 15, and before fading into obscurity the next spring, he excited a winter slogan in Flatbush: "Now we got Spooner sooner...
Bandit-beating is not the simple business it once was. In the early days of the slots, the process was called "spooning," and it had nothing whatever to do with June or moon. A spooner would simply slip the handle of a tablespoon into the coin-return opening, wedge open the little trap door, insert his coin in the slot, and pull the lever. Down through the trap door would fall the take. One imaginative cheater was caught using a fine homemade machine tool with detachable heads, one each for nickel, dime, quarter, half-dollar and dollar slots...
Terry Blanchard, as Elba's version of Elsa Maxwell, John Spooner, as Walrus, Duchess of Wopping, the Baltimore girl who made her debut in the YWCA and grew up to "rock an empire," and Amyn Khan, an Yma Sumac, whose attraction for men--all men--is fatal, are marvelous. All of them can sing, all of them can act, and all of them have excellent parts. The scene in which they get together to protest that each is really a "Lady at Heart," is a high point of the show...
...other college men who met Miss Woodward and posed pictorially with her were John D. Spooner '59, of Lowell House and Chestnut Hill, and Rupert Hitzig '60, of Dunster House and New York City...