Word: waldrons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thanks, with that of myriad readers ... for the story on Frankie Waldron and the infamous cause of which he is the recognized head in this country...
Williamson, for instance, finding that no birth record of Waldron-Dennis was available in Seattle, was able to establish Aug. 10, 1905 as his birth date by digging through the public school records. From old Seattle city directories he found four addresses where the Waldron family had once lived. After ringing a score of doorbells in these neighborhoods and making dozens of telephone calls, he turned...
...Waldron-Dennis' boyhood...
...these and other bits & pieces of fact began to fill in the pattern of Dennis' life, other TIME bureaus were put to work investigating the important new leads that kept turning up. In New York, Miss Finn turned up the exact address of Waldron-Dennis' stepmother in Southern California, where James Murray, of our Los Angeles bureau, located her. A tip from Washington (about a phony name Dennis had used on a passport) was relayed (with a picture of Dennis) to TIME Inc.'s Tokyo bureau, which turned up the story of his activities...
When all of the tag ends of this far-flung reporting job were in, Senior Editor Duncan Norton-Taylor sat down to write the story. He had his facts and, when his story was done, Frankie Waldron, alias Eugene Dennis, was no longer such a mystery...