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Electrocuted. Joyce Shepard. murderer of Sheriff Bob Smith and Deputy Sheriff Jake Owens of Fisher County, Tex.; at Huntsville, Tex. Sentenced two years ago, Shepard refused to eat, to wear clothes, acted mad so convincingly he was declared insane. In the asylum he dropped his role too soon, was found normal. Robert Blake, his cellmate, also condemned, wrote a magazine article which was made into The Last Mile, a Broadway smash-hit which closed last week after a 36-week run. Great thrill of the play was the prisoner's hoarse repeated cry, "Jones! Oh Jones!" which real Convict...
Died. John Lloyd Shine. 76, English actor, producer; friend of Shaw, Barrie, King Edward VII, Sir Henry Dickens (barrister son of Novelist Dickens); of Bright's disease, in Manhattan. Once he gave half a bob (12?) to a street urchin named Charles Chaplin. He played approximately 2,000 times in Boucicault's The Shaughraun...
When Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd named an Antarctic range the Charles Bob Mountains, most people were mystified. The Rockefeller Mountains and Marie Byrd Land had been understandable. But who was Charles Bob? Investigators learned that he was a tall, broad-shouldered, genial man of 42 with the middle name of Victor who had come to Manhattan's financial district from the West, maintained luxurious offices at 120 Broadway. In these offices he busied himself over the affairs of many enterprises, three of which especially stood out. One was Rainbow Luminous Products, Inc., long involved in a raucous patent squabble...
Last week it became apparent how little was really known about ambitious Mr. Bob. His mysteriousness was accentuated when suddenly he vanished. Thq first report was that, accompanied by pilot and secretary, he was lost in flight between Chicago and New York. Discovery of his airplane in Chicago spoiled this theory, but the continued absence of any word from the three men heightened interest. In Manhattan, Mrs. Bob said she knew nothing of her husband's whereabouts, became prostrate. A son said that lately his father had feared a personal attack. Then mysterious telephone calls began. The secretary, apparently...
Observers now speculate on the possibility of Brother Phil joining Brother Bob in the Senate in 1932 by displacing the present Progressive incumbent, Senator John James Elaine. Repeated was the slogan: "A La Follette has never been defeated in Wisconsin...