One night last March in San Francisco's St. Francis Hotel, a whiskey bottle cracked the red head of a beauty named Helen De Vine, whose mother runs a duck hatchery. Miss De Vine told police that her bland, baby-faced boyfriend, Mark Lee Megladdery, and one Samuel J. Hume were tippling with her when Hume swung at Megladdery and Miss De Vine forgot to duck.
This otherwise passing incident was duck soup for California's Republican Attorney General Earl Warren, who was after Mark Megladdery on charges more serious than nocturnal brawling. Mark Megladdery was...
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