Word: trails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first prison stretch for armed robbery at the age of 21. He was paroled in 1935. Three months later, with another paroled convict, he kicked and beat a Napa gas-station operator to death; then, after fighting a gun battle with Napa County deputies, he blazed a trail of kidnapings and holdups from Los Angeles to Stockton. Captured in the wreckage of a stolen car, he was convicted of murder, robbery and burglary, all in the first degree. Judge Percy J. King recommended that he "remain in prison for the remainder of his natural life, and under no circumstances...
...Henno cemetery's clients maintain a high degree of active pet-remembrance: one departed dog is interred on an innerspring mattress, a good many other animals, birds & snakes are buried in infants' caskets and have granite or marble headstones with such inscriptions as "Resting on the Trail" and "Our Baby Girl." Over the holidays, however, many survivors also set up decorated Christmas trees or holly wreaths for the "little sleepers," and one San Francisco Chinese regularly spreads a post-mortem feast of cupcakes, fruit, lamb chops, boned chicken, hamburger, malted-milk tablets and Coca-Cola over the graves...
Lindbergh ax-jumped on to the ice chute to try to grab him, but Hopf's body flashed by. It left a trail of blood for 800 feet. Hopf was still breathing when they reached him. Lindbergh eased Hopf on to lashed skis for the tortuous descent...
Moonlight in Vermont (Jerri Adams; Columbia). A new songstress reminisces enticingly about Old New England in a wistful tune that is hitting the comeback trail...
...city by night. Bloom and Mason hole up at last in a dingy East zone apartment and spend a lot of time proving that men & women act the same way behind the Iron Curtain as they do behind the gauzy type. After this, Mason has the censors on his trail as well as the Russians...