Robert Grey Reynolds
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Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2016.
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1 online resource
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English
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A United Airlines Boeing 727 crashed into Lake Michigan on its approach to O'Hare International Airport on August 16, 1965. The plane was the first Boeing 727 to ever crash. In the following two months two more like it came down near Cincinnati and in Salt Lake City. Yet the Federal Aviation Administration decided not to ground the 727s. 30 people were killed on board the UAL jet which was not even one third full when it crashed. Many pilots who were...
Author
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
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English
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Evel Knievel's career as a motorcycle daredevil and stuntman reached its climax in early September 1974. A planned jump over the Grand Canyon in Arizona had been nixed by the United States government. So Knievel rented land near Twin Falls, Idaho at the Snake River Canyon. The jump was planned to go off on Labor Day 1972 but necessary engineers had to be hired and time was needed to promote the incredible stunt. When the big day finally arrived a...
Author
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource.
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English
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Sonny Liston began to rise rapidly among the ranks of professional boxers beginning in the early months of 1958. This was a fighter who had turned professional in 1953 following a stint as a Gold Gloves boxer in St. Louis. During a 21 month period from 1956-1958 he hardly fought at all however. Why was this? And also why did Liston ascend the ladder of heavyweights so quickly? It is a matter upon which there has been much speculation. My e-book examines...
Author
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
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English
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Wally Butts and Bear Bryant were two legendary coaching figures in the Southeastern Conference. An Atlanta insurance man claimed to have been connected to a telephone conversation between the two coaches while he was trying to call a friend on business in Atlanta. The Saturday Evening Post published the story told by George P. Burnett in March 1963. From there investigations began at the University of Georgia and the University of Alabama. Burnett...
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
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English
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Carmelo Liconti was a racketeer in Brooklyn who was involved in the barber shop, funeral home and policy rackets. From Reggio, Calabria, Liconti came to the United States in the early years of the 20th Century to join his father, His mother emigrated a year later. Carmelo was tied to other noteworthy criminals of the Depression era such as Ignazio Lupo. In 1923 Lupo and Liconti were among 8 men arrested in connection for the murder of Red Hook, Brooklyn...
Author
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
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English
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Marilyn's period in New York City from 1954-1957 is interesting because it was a time of change and growth for the actress. She formed her own company, Marilyn Monroe Productions, to produce television, photographs, and films, for herself and other talented performers. Monroe stayed at the Waldorf Towers and with Milton H. Greene at the home he and his wife owned in Westport, Connecticut. Aside from her career she celebrated her new independence as...
Author
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
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English
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Poliomyelitis was a dreaded illness in the 20th century until its eradication thanks to the Salk Vaccine that was introduce in 1954. My book looks at the impact made by infantile paralysis over a single region, i.e. the towns, cities and counties of upstate New York. I have detailed various measures taken in Onondaga and Erie County to fight polio. Among these were funds to raise money for wool Kirby pads, that were used to comfort polio victims....
Author
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2013.
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1 online resource
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English
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Lew Feldman is a largely unknown fighter who was a prominent boxer on the cards at Madison Square Garden and many New York City arenas in the era of the Great Depression. He was an aggressive fighter who mauled his opponents with punches. Feldman boxed many of the most prominent names in the lightweight and heavyweight divisions in the 1930s. Among these were Kid Chocolate and Henry Armstrong. My e-book features round-by-round coverage of many of...
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
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English
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Little Frankie Gallucio is a somewhat obscure name in the annals of organized crime except for one event. This occurred in 1923 when Al Capone worked as a bouncer in a Coney Island club run by mobster Frankie Yale. It was then that Gallucio arrived one evening with his younger sister, Lena, and his date. After Al Capone moved from Brooklyn to Chicago he often told people that the scars on his left cheek were earned while he was fighting in World War...
Author
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
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English
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Owney Madden owned a large stake in the Cotton Club, perhaps the most famous of New York City nightclubs in the 1920s and 1930s. He also controlled the supply of beer distributed to America's largest metropolitan area. These two facts alone make him an important figure in the history of early twentieth century New York City. Madden was born in Leeds, raised in Liverpool, and came to the United States a year after his Irish mother. He was a teenage...
Author
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
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English
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Elmer Trigger Burke was an Army Ranger who took out a troop of Germans during World War II. Highly decorated Burke returned to a life of crime when the war ended and he came back to the United States. His specialties were robbery and assassination by contract. A psychopath Elmer was raised in New York's Hell's Kitchen neighborhood, tutored by his elder brother Charlie, who was also a criminal. In 1954 Trigger made a noteworthy escape from Boston's...
Author
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
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English
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My e-book looks at a specific era in the horse and dog racing industries, i.e. 1965-1976. The text discusses specific crimes committed during this time. The crimes were the work of a monopoly established by a Buffalo, New York concessionaire and its ties to the Mafia in major U.S. cities. Mobsters did the bidding on Emprise Corp. in Detroit, Phoenix, West Memphis, Arkansas, Chicago, Canandaigua, NY, Pensacola, Omaha and many other locations. The monopoly...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
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My father was a boatswain's mate-pipefitter seaman aboard the U.S.S. Hyman DD-732, a Sumner Class Destroyer. The ship was stationed largely in the Pacific Theater for much of World War II. My father remembers hearing stories of a Japanese Kamikaze plane crashing into one of the ship's smokestacks. During his service on the Hyman Robert Grey Reynolds Sr. worked as a pipefitter seaman, having learned welding as a teenager in the shipyard in Wilmington,...
14) Capucine
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
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English
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Capucine was a successful French model who came to the United States in 1959 to act in motion pictures. The protege of Charles Feldman she went on to act in The Lion (1962), The 7th Dawn (1964), The Pink Panther (1963) and A Walk On The Wild Side (1962). An exotic beauty of uncertain beginnings in Toulon, France, Capucine starred in nearly forty movies before 1980. Most of them were made at the height of her career in the early and mid 1960s. She...
Author
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
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English
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Leon Czolgosz was inspired to shoot and kill President William Mc Kinley by Emma Goldman and other anarchists. At the beginning of the 20th Century leaders of France and Italy had been murdered by anarchists whose philosophy was similar to that of Czolgosz. Leon's family immigrated to the United States from Polish Germany in the late 19th Century. They settled first in Alpena and Detroit before coming to Cleveland. Paul Czolgosz, Leon's father and...
Author
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
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English
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The Camp Fire Girls as an organization for the education and recreation of young women has been a great part of the cultural heritage of New York State. My book looks at the Camp Fire Girls with individual memories of its leaders and members. Much of my text is compiled from newspaper accounts and ancestry records. The timespan of the ebook extends from the inception of the Camp Fire Girls in 1910 until the mid-1970s. The text is enhanced by vintage...
Author
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
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English
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Herman Webster Mudgett was responsible for the deaths of as many as 200 people. Most of them were murdered during the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, which was held in Chicago. Mudgett confessed to 27 of these killings. So far as I know there has not been a published account of Herman Mudgett's ancestry. The man who became Dr. Henry Horton Holmes came to Chicago from New England. His family migrated from England in the 17th century to Massachusetts,...
Author
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
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English
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Benny Kauff was a major league hitter, fielder, and base runner of great talent. He played with the Indianapolis Hoosiers and Brooklyn Tip-Tops, of the short-lived Federal League, in 1914 and 1915. Often compared to Hall of Famer Ty Cobb, Kauff was a multi-talented outfielder, who could hit for power. His career was abbreviated because of a car theft arrest in late 1919. Benny was later acquitted of the charges by a grand jury in New York City. However,...
Author
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
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English
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Alex Karras was suspended indefinitely by National Football League Commissioner Pete Rozelle in April 1963. My e-book describes the NFL's investigation, which involved former FBI agents who worked for professional football. Was Rozelle correct in the indefinite suspension he extended to the Detroit Lions' defensive tackle? It is up to readers to conclude the extent of Karras' involvement in the scandal. Karras admitted to betting small amounts on...
20) A Woman's Deadly Wrath Vera Stretz' Murder Of Dr. Fritz Gebhardt New York City November 12, 1935
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
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English
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Fritz Gebhardt was murdered by his jealous lover in the early morning hours of November 12, 1935. Vera Stretz was only one of numerous lover s the German academic was involved with in New York City. A married man, the 43-year-old had a wife and two daughters in Karlsruhe, Germany. Gebhardt met Stretz on a cruise to the West Indies in December 1935. When they returned to New York she went to work with him at his import/export business. My e-book looks...