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  • Noel Francis Hollywood Actress From Texas

    by Robert Grey Reynolds ...
    Noel Francis caught the eye of Broadway producer Florenz Ziegfeld after she came to New York City from her native Texas. Noel soon appeared in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1925. Then with help from Ziegfeld she started acting in motion pictures. She signed with Fox Films. In the early 1930s she became typecast playing gun moll/floozie parts. Although she seldom received star billing her role as Lara in ... Read more

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  • Nicholas "Big Nose Nick Tolentino" Lucchese Soldier Heroin Dealer

    by Robert Grey Reynolds ...
    Nicholas Tolentino was a Lucchese family soldier most closely associated with narcotics/heroin trafficking. "Big Nose Nick" was arrested for his part in two 1950s drug rings. Both were taken down by the combined effort of federal agents and New York City Police. The syndicates had labs in Hackensack and Lodi, New Jersey. Tolentino was closely linked to mobster Giovanni "Big John" Ormento. In April ... Read more

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  • A Rockaway Beach Murder August 1949 Queens, New York

    by Robert Grey Reynolds ...
    Bartender Jack Hannon's August 1949 murder in Rockaway Beach was a violent event that remained unsolved at the end of the year. Law enforcement believed that Hannon's assassin used a German luger P-38. Multiple witnesses looked on as the barkeep was shot three times in the head. Hannon died in the street near 100-25 St. Marks Avenue. The killer quickly jumped back into a '49 Kaiser which eluded a ... Read more

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  • Toronto Maple Leafs 1959-1960

    by Robert Grey Reynolds ...
    The Toronto Maple Leafs endured some very lean seasons in the 1950s before adding some key ingredients that enable the National Hockey League team to become a bonafide contender for the Stanley Cup championship. Defenceman Tim Horton became a regular by 1952 and Frank Mahovlich, Bob Pulford, and Dave Keon were added somewhat later. The 1958-1959 had gone further than their predecessors although ... Read more

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  • James "Jimmy the Sniff" Vintaloro Lucchese Family Soldier

    by Robert Grey Reynolds ...
    James Vintaloro was a Lucchese soldier who is most often remembered for the death of heavyweight boxer Johnny Grosso. Grosso and Vintaloro argued repeatedly when both were involved in gambling rackets in New York City. Grosso was gunned down while crossing the street with some companions in 1932. The boxer often made fun of bookie Vintaloro's small stature. This may have triggered his violent ... Read more

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  • Hope Hicks Trump White House Aide

    by Robert Grey Reynolds ...
    Hope Charlotte Hicks was an integral lynch pin in the 2016 campaign to elect billionaire businessman Donald Trump President of the United States. A native of Greenwich, Connecticut, Hicks had political aspirations from her youth. Hope and her sister modeled for preppy fashion designer Ralph Lauren. At one point she told a Greenwich Magazine interviewer that she might enter politics if the whole ... Read more

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  • A Middle East Airlines Sud Aviation SE-210 Crashes In The Persian Gulf April 17, 1964

    by Robert Grey Reynolds ...
    A French built Caravelle III jet leased to Middle East Airlines of Beirut, Lebanon crashed on the edge of the Persian Gulf during a violent sandstorm on April 17, 1964. No survivors among a large group of Arabian American Oil Company personnel and their families were found. The wreckage of Flight ME 444 was found the following day during a massive search that was inhibited by hurricane like winds ... Read more

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  • Barney Kotler Mafia Bookmaker Jewish Murder, Inc., Killer

    by Robert Grey Reynolds ...
    Barney Kotler was a lynchpin in the Harry Gross bookmaking syndicate that flourished in New York City in the late 1940s and 1950s. Kings County District Attorney Miles F. McDonald was incremental in breaking up the Gross' gambling network. Much of the betting was on horse racing and baseball. My e-book names many of the ring's co-conspirators and those indicted in connection with it. Intriguingly, ... Read more

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  • Cimabue Distinguished Florentine Painter of 14th Century Italy

    by Robert Grey Reynolds ...
    Cimabue is perhaps best known as the instructor of the renowned painter Giotto. Cimabue is also famous for his Madonnas, one of which was stolen from a private collection in Hartford, Connecticut in October 1907. Aside from his home in Florence Cimabue actively painted in Padua, Pisa and Assisi. Giotto was patronized by a Paduan moneylender named Enrico degli Scrovegni. In 1301 Cimabue painted the ... Read more

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  • The Bricklayer and President Franklin Roosevelt Miami, Florida February 15, 1933

    by Robert Grey Reynolds ...
    Giuseppe Zangara has been compared to Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of William McKinley. Czolgosz was electrocuted at Auburn Prison in upstate New York within weeks after he shot and killed McKinley in a receiving line at the Pan American Exhibition in Buffalo, New York in 1901. Like Czolgosz, Zangara was an anarchist and was found to have received no aid from others who opposed government leaders. ... Read more

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  • Marie Prevost Canadian Film Actress of Early Hollywood

    by Robert Grey Reynolds ...
    Marie Prevost is in many ways an example of the tragedy wrought by the advent of sound motion picture production. The Ontario-born beauty was as big a star as any in silent cinema films from 1924-1928. Yet her weight and thick New England accent both presented problems when she spoke in sound movie roles. Prevost was talented enough to carry many of the films she starred in during the silent era. ... Read more

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  • The Prostitution Trials of Minot "Mickey" Jelke Margarine Fortune Scion

    by Robert Grey Reynolds ...
    Mickey Jelke was a 22-year-old playboy who was arrested in Manhattan for forced prostitution and living off the earnings of prostitutes. The scion of an oleomargarine fortune, he was originally from Lake Forest, Illinois. his father sold the family business to Lever Brothers (now Unilever) in 1948. When the young Jelke turned twenty-five he was due to inherit millions as his share of the family ... Read more

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