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...James E. Lough, Dean at New York University for eighteen years, and originator and organizer of the first "University Afloat" in 1926, will again direct the educational program of the Cruise. Dr. Mary S. Crawford, Dean of Women at the University of Southern California, has been appointed to one of the floating college's administrative positions for the year 1931-32. The courses are to be conducted by a faculty of professors and instructors from Yale, University of Oklahoma, University of Texas, and similar institutions...
...publication grew wider, its purpose less clearly defined. A typical article of last month's issue was "Guy McAfee, 'Capone' of L. A."-an expose of the purported vice-reign of Former Policeman McAfee. The magazine had a financial backer in portly, grey-haired Charles H. Crawford, a local political boss who had been involved in many an unsavory mess. And last February it acquired a new writer: Herbert F. Spencer, a coast newspaperman of good repute, six years city editor of the Los Angeles Express (until Paul Block purchased...
...magazine's first birthday last week. Spencer was conversing with Crawford in the latter's Hollywood Office. A third man called, was closeted with the others. Presently there were sounds of angry voices; a scuffle, pistol shots, a fleeing figure. Spencer staggered out in pursuit, fell dead. Boss Crawford lay beside his desk, died four hours later...
Meanwhile District Attorney Buron Fitts had an entirely different clue. He showed to Crawford's stenographers the photograph of a tall, athletic young man with a blond mustache. . . . Next day David Harris Clark, former deputy district attorney, candidate for municipal judge (backed by McAfee) in this week's election, walked into the Hall of Justice and surrendered to his recent chief. Wise to the ways of prosecutor and press, he would make no statement. But with the information that Candidate Clark had bought a .38 calibre revolver the day before the killing (and paid for it with...
...scale proprietor of brothels and gambling places. Marco, who is in San Quentin prison, had a partner and consort in comely, blonde June Taylor, who continued as his field-manager. Last week it was hinted that Prosecutor Clark had some sort of understanding with the Taylor woman; that Crawford had threatened him with exposure on the eve of this week's election. Immediately she became the object of a search by police-the inevitable "key witness...