Word: tales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many a fantastic tale was told of the late William J. Fallen, debonair, daring, egotistical criminal defender for many of Manhattan's biggest racketeers two decades ago. None was more fantastic than Fallon's reputed stunt of gulleting a bottle of poison, completing his argument to the jury, sauntering out of the court and then rushing frantically to a private room where waiting doctors cleaned him out with a stomach pump...
Northwest Passage, his latest book, is not another of his Chronicles of Arundel, but like them is based on preRevolutionary U. S. history. Narrator of the tale is one Langdon Towne, whose great ambition is to be an artist and paint pictures of Indians. But the real hero is Major Robert Rogers of Rogers' Rangers. Langdon was a bright lad and did so well at school that his family scraped together enough money to send him to Harvard College. A rum party in his room brought his brief career there to a close; his disappointed father...
...Langdon's sympathy for his chief vanished when he discovered why Ann was no longer there. He left Rogers to the descending discords of his fate, went in search of Ann. Their marriage, his career in London and his return to America during the Revolution, bring the long tale to its close...
...Prentice called Margaret Montgomery's roommate, who immediately notified the police. To them, Nurse Montgomery babbled that two men had abducted her, bound her, released her when she promised to warn Mr. Rockefeller to "stop being a great lover." Under further questioning, Nurse Montgomery admitted that the whole tale was a hoax to renew Mr. Prentice's interest in her. "I wanted to be a martyr," confessed she. "Some woman called me and told me he was going with another girl." "Well, I'm surprised," said John Rockefeller Prentice...
...installed easel and paper sketching pads to meet modern competition. He has sand-modeled such celebrities as Paderewski, Caruso, Valentino, Gilda Gray, Portraitist William Chase (who told him to "keep it up"). He specializes in monumental masterpieces like "The Empty Chair," "Lion of Lucerne," "Old Skipper's Tale." A special Spagnola attraction is a pair of big sand & cement dragons with light-bulb eyes, open mouths to receive coins which tinkle down through the animal, land on spaces marked "Papa Love Mama," "You're a Bit Tight." Last year Sculptor Spagnola ran a coin vote with busts...