Word: wrighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into the Ozark foothills in a truck went Denver M. Wright one day last week. With him. beside the two young lions he had bought from a circus for $75, were two friends, a barber and a plumber. Somewhere in the hills were his two sons, lost. Behind him, horrified, was the St. Louis suburb of Brentwood, where he had long been respected as a manufacturer and a member of the school board. All around him was hostility. In Mississippi County waited a sheriff with an insanity warrant. In Cape Girardeau County waited 800 vigilantes determined that he should hunt...
...Commerce, Mo., went the expedition. There Hunter Wright learned that newsreel photographers had withdrawn from the chase, that his wife was on her way from Brentwood to stop the hunt, that a game warden had abducted his 14-year-old son Charles. "The boy and I are going out in the country a piece," said the warden. "By the time we're back maybe Wright will listen to reason...
...Commerce, Hunter Wright found one friend. Tillman Anderson, landowner, offered him the use of a small island in the Mississippi. Off to the island went hunters, dogs and the two lions, Nell & Bess...
Into the complicated life of Hunter Wright now intruded the Press. Covering the lion hunt for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch was its energetic crime-news reporter, Alvin Goldstein, 1925 Pulitzer Prizewinner (for helping solve the Leopold & Loeb crime). The Post-Dispatch's up-&-coming rival, the Star-&-Times, had engaged United Press Correspondent Leland Chesley. Their rivalry became a feud when Reporter Goldstein claimed exclusive rights to take pictures and Hunter Wright supported his claim. The rival newshawks chartered separate boats...
...Gentlemen," said Hunter Wright as he opened the cage on the island, brandishing a chair and a pistol like famed Lion-tamer Clyde Beatty, but with his friends training rifles on the beasts, "this is the biggest moment of my life." The lions stood up, yawned, slunk out. Seven hounds cowered and whined. Off into the thick willows wandered the lions. Hunter Wright, gleeful, promised them a four-hour start, suggested lunch. At this point he found Newshawk Chesley busily taking photographs. Newshawk Goldstein complaining about the loss of his plates, threatening to break his rival's camera. "Please...