Word: watson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Herald & Examiner, the pictures represented a notable scoop. City Editor John Dienhart had long had a standing order from hard-boiled Managing Editor Victor Watson for an electrocution picture. To the execution of Murderer Thompson he sent tall, personable Cameraman William Vandivert, with a candid camera concealed in the crotch of his trousers. Squatting on the floor in front of some 50 standing and kneeling witnesses behind a wire-mesh glass partition, Vandivert caught the writhing body, the contorted hands, the black-hooded face of Gerald Thompson, won for himself a small bonus, a smaller raise...
Another tackle, Bob Watson, who ranks with Burton as a leading candidate, was rested yesterday but is not disabled. Adlis has suffered a leg injury and is doubtful as a Dartmouth game starter...
Though both George A.'s were seated close to 0. P. Van Sweringen at the auction, they were strange faces to Manhattan newsmen. Spare, bald-pated George Alexander Ball is a power in Indiana politics, a Republican National Committeeman, a close friend of onetime Senator James Watson and divides the honor of being the First Citizen of Muncie. Ind. with his elder brother Frank. The only two survivors of the original five Ball brothers, they make the Ball fruit-jar known to all housewives. They both live in show places on the banks of the White River in Muncie...
...Watson at right tackle completes the line. The ends and backfield have been chosen according to schedule. There is no one in sight who can compete with the stellar end combination of Dubiel and Kelly, and since the beginning of the week there has been little doubt but that the backfield would consist, of Moseley, Lane, Jackson, and Hedblom...
...winter, but it is hard to believe that anyone could be as good as Edmund Gwenn is in this adaptation. He is even convincing when his Episcopalian relish for a nice little crime gets the young people into trouble and he has to turn dramatic to save them. Lucile Watson is the Bishop's sister, longtime president of the Primrose League, who knows how to tie up crooks because she has had so much experience tying up Christmas packages...