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...conscience he sent a message to Jane Wood that he wanted to tell her the whole story of the robbery gang. She went up to the De Land state prison camp where Home confessed to her four other holdups, named five accomplices, including Miami Policemen Peter Balma and Lewis Womack. The two cops, said Home, picked out easy robbery victims while on their motorcycle rounds, gave the names and addresses to Home and his partner, Gerard Casselli, collected 25% of their take...
...John Womack Vandercook, 51, the C.I.O. gets a globe-trotting author (most notable of his ten books: Black Majesty, a 1928 bestseller about Haiti's famed King Christophe) and onetime (1940-46) NBC correspondent (TIME, Jan. 10, 1944). His cultured, velvety voice was last heard on a 1952 TV show, Campaigning with Stevenson. Unlike A.F.L.'s Edwards, who swings a crusader's meat ax at "the big-business boys." Vandercook (who will be on ABC's payroll) expects to deliver a quiet "expository commentary'' without a heavy pro-labor slant. "He seemed...
...fortune hunters sadly departed when they learned that Cripple Creek had no geological formations indicating the presence of gold. Only Bob Womack, a cowhand, kept digging for gold in his spare time; he was called "Crazy Bob" for his pains. In January 1891, Crazy Bob struck gold, sold his claim for $500 while drunk celebrating. He died a pauper, but the field he opened up was one of the richest in the world. Out of Cripple Creek's famed mines (Golden Cycle, El Paso, Ajax, Independence, Vindicator, Isabella, Portland) poured a golden flood of more than $500 million...
Outpointed. In Houston, after a domestic brawl, Mrs. John Womack nursed a hurt finger, husband John a broken 1) nose, 2) bone in his right foot, 3) rib, 4) pair of spectacles...
...most elegant voice on the U.S. air belongs to a slight, Vandyke-bearded, richly-turned-out gentleman who made a happy career out of avoiding hard work until World War II caught up with him. The voice is that of John W. (for Womack) Vandercook, 41, onetime night watchman for a rummage sale, at present one of radio's better news commentators...