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...Nancy Seay Lee, 17, died in Oklahoma City General Hospital, whither she had been taken "about dead." Frank Lee University of Oklahoma football player! to whom she had been secretly married! said she had been aborted by Dr. Richard E. Thacker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Abortion Ring | 5/9/1932 | See Source »

...Roach told County Attorney Lewis R. Morris that his wife had died after an abortion by Dr. Thacker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Abortion Ring | 5/9/1932 | See Source »

...Thacker, an M. D. and onetime Army lieutenant, was also charged with murder. He fled. With his wife and instrument case he got into a sedan and disappeared in the direction of Mexico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Abortion Ring | 5/9/1932 | See Source »

...story told last year by Gaston B. Means, shifty sleuth, in The Strange Death of President Harding (TIME, March 31, 1930). Actual author of this tale, wherein Mrs. Harding was supposed to have poisoned her husband as a result of the Nan Britton affair, was May Dixon Thacker of Norfolk, Va. In an article in Liberty last week Mrs. Thacker repudiated the whole Means story, lamented that she had been badly duped. Three months ago, she said, she was told by "one of the highest officials in Washington" that "it was positively a physical impossibility" for Sleuth Means ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Ghosts | 11/9/1931 | See Source »

...Loved You.' " The serial was started on schedule; Vancouver's reaction was reported as " unfavorable." The daily instalment was relegated to a comparatively inconspicuous position in the Sun and carried a subhead: "Any opinions expressed in this article are the opinions of the co-authors [May Dixon Thacker with Means] and not necessarily the opinions of the Vancouver Sun." The Publisher. The Vancouver Sun is the "personal" journal of its publisher, good-looking, nattily dressed Robert James Cromie. When he acquired the paper in 1917, he was 30, "Canada's youngest publisher," but no newsman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Most Useful Sun | 12/15/1930 | See Source »

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