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THIRTEEN MEN-Tiffany Thayer- Claude Kendall...
Most murder-story writers content themselves with two or three violent deaths in one book. Not so Author Thayer: his hero kills 39 people. But Thirteen Men is not a detective story, for the murders are all committed and solved in the first chapter. The rest of the book takes up the life-story of each of the twelve jurors in the murder trial, starting with each man's birth and ending with his opening the mailed summons for jury duty. It is a varied panel: an Irish contractor, a Greek restaurant proprietor, a commercial artist, an Italian grocer...
...DAEMS JAMES D. LAW C. H. DICKMAN R. MULLER THAYER STEVENS...
American sportsmen deplore Alaska's action. Famed Stewart Edward White has categorically denied the charges against the Kadiak bear or ''brownie." Of the death of John Thayer, an assistant in the Forest Service, whose death precipitated the legislative action, Mr. White wrote in the Saturday Evening Post: ''The victim was green to the beasts and turned loose on the first one he saw, wounded it just sufficiently to make it pugnacious. Then when the bear charged, the poor fellow stood stockstill and unresisting, until the bear pounced upon...
...Lakin--19 23-30 R. M. Minns--29 MATTHEWS 1-15 R. E. Gumm--1 16-30 J. W. Fellows--20 31-45 H. E. Stokinger--33 46-60 E. C. Tredway--55 STOUGHTON South Entry F. C. Troll--6 North Entry J. Fleming--24 THAYER 1-10 Herbet Gustafseu--4 11-20 W. Ginman--14 21-32 G. R. Hamilton--21 33-44 P. M. Sheldon--33 45-57 S. Keck--50 58-68 E. W. Page--66 WELD 1-13 F. E. Remick--4 14-27 E. S. Amazeen--16 28-39 J. Lowenberg...