Word: denton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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People had always liked Louise Peete. In 1919 her soothing manner had attracted a wealthy old Los Angeles oilman named Jacob C. Denton. She leased his house, and agreed to let him stay on in it. Soon she was using his car, paying his bills, handling his business with bankers. On the night of June 1, 1920, after months of happy companionship, Jake Denton disappeared. Weeping, Louise Peete helped police in a fruitless hunt for clues. Then she sadly sublet his house and went to Denver, where, she said, her second husband, one Richard Peete, was divorcing...
Jake is Home. Mulling over Denton's strange disappearance, detectives had the house searched again. Finally they found a neatly plastered crypt under the basement stairs. In it was Jake Denton's body, shot in the back...
MAIDEN VOYAGE - Denton Welch -Fischer ($2.75). A 17-year-old protege of Poetess Edith Sitwell writes precociously of his truancy, his travels and adventures on the Continent and in China, and such bizarre escapades as his walk through a city's streets at midnight disguised as a woman...
...Canadian soldier came to the defense of the Canadian civilian last week. On leave from Canada's ist Division, Captain Alan Chambers took his seat in the House of Commons. There, a few days before, a fellow officer, R.C.A.F. Group Captain Denton Massey, had berated Canadians for their complacency (TIME, May 8). Up rose Captain Chambers to reply...
Back from war-pinched Britain to prosperous Canada came R.C.A.F. Group Captain Denton Massey (cousins: Actor Raymond Massey, Canadian Diplomat Vincent Massey). In the House of Commons, Group Captain Massey took his old seat. Last week he spoke...