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Heatter's advent on the big time dates from April 3, 1936. That night he was stationed at Trenton to cover the execution of Bruno Hauptmann. Although Heatter had been tipped off that Bruno was scheduled to be electrocuted at 8:05, he did not die until close to...
As the names of the victims leaked out, the impact of the purge rocked Bucharest to its rotting foundations. Murdered along with the police who had carried out the Iron Guard execution two years before were onetime Iron-Guard-purging Premier General George Argeseanu; General Gabriel Marinescu, onetime Bucharest police...
The essence of Escape was its tingling suspense. A great German actress (Alia Nazimova), who returned from the U. S. to sell her property, is sentenced to death by the Nazis for some inadvertent but illegal financial finagling. Her U. S.-born son (Robert Taylor), sniffing along her hidden trail...
Rain drove Harvard indoors yesterday afternoon, but Coach Harlow treated the team to a full workout in Briggs Cage. Brown plays came in for a lot of attention because Coach McLaughry has given his team an attack which is veiled in deception. Perfect execution of two or three plays a...
Coach Snavely, 46-year-old minister's son who never swears nor smiles on a football field, has a simple formula for winning games: "Leave nothing to chance." Cornell's remarkable timing, brilliant deception and smooth execution of assignments are the result of intelligence but also of drill...