Night of the Phone Call and Hidden Clues
In a tense chain of interviews, Mrs. Bellows recounts a late night call from a college student claiming to need help. Detective Rankin tracks a lawyer couple, uncovering a roadster, a missing car, an upstairs rendezvous, and a concealed hypodermic needle implying Edward Fletcher’s involvement in Stuart Jordan’s death.
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Spring Mill
Rankin
Philadelphia
Gladwyne
Fletcher
Glad- Wayne
Mrs. Bellows
Spring Mill Road
Montgomery Pike
Jordan
Mrs. Fletcher
Paul Whitaker
Stuart
Bellows
Edward Fletcher
Edward
Mr. Fletcher
Stuart Jordan
Mr. Sykes
Sykes
Ned Patterson
Gordon
Croft Hall
Molly Hogan
Lester
Tommy
Mr. Merrick
How I Broke Into The Movies
The memoir outlines Hal C. Herman rising from a Tulsa youth to Hollywood actor. He details early poverty in Orange California, work as a grocer clerk and oil driller, wartime service, and break into films with Cecil B. De Mille. He notes roles in The Volga Boatman and later hits including Skyscraper and Two Arabian Knights. He recalls his father as a civil engineer and parallels with his upbringing.
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Orange
Calif
San Diego
Tulsa
Okla
Marshfield
Riverside
Hollywood
Cecil B. de Mille
Mr. de Mille
Pathe
Fraternity Initiation Death Tied to Poison and Theft
Detective Rankin investigates the Mu Beta Sigma initiation death of Stuart Jordan, tracing a poisoned injection, thumbtack marked shoes, and a web of family guardianship, suspected thefts, drugged students, and a missing laboratory item amid confessions and forged suspicions.
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Mu Beta Sigma
Stuart Jordan
Tommy Rankin
Philadelphia
Jordan
Rankin
Howard Merrick
St. Louis
Vandalia
Ralph Buckley
Walter Randall
Edward Fletcher
Larry Palmer
Arnold Prince
Connie
Ned Patterson
Fletcher
Patterson
Farmer in Sheridan Leaning Against Himself
A Sheridan farmer sits in leisure, arms folded as he leans at ease. His son Freddie explains to his mother that daddy has come from the field by saying he is “out there leaning against himself.”
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Sheridan
Freddie
Indianapolis News
Spencer Tracy Broadway Beginnings and Film Rise
Spencer Tracy began on Broadway with Bread then starred in Nigger Rich and The Last Mile. The Last Mile earned him a Fox film contract. He appeared in Up the River in 1930 and later in She Wanted a Millionaire Sky Devils Disorderly Conduct Young America Society Girl Painted Woman and Me and My Gal.
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Spencer Tracy
Fox Films
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Milton Propper
Chapter
Hal C. Herman
William Boyd
Elinor Fair
Dr. Caldwell
WNU
Bill Boyd
Cuticura
Dept. 14S
Malden
Mass
Tena
FIM
Nash
KFAB
KFOR
KGNF
WJAG
KGKY
WNAX
KFYR
America
Rinso
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