People: Back of Beyond

Winnie Ruth Judd, 46, the "blonde tigress" trunk slayer of 20 years ago (she shot two women friends, dismembered the bodies, shipped them from Phoenix to Los Angeles), made her fourth escape from the

Arizona State Hospital for the Insane. Less than 24 hours later she was picked up on the street in Phoenix.

Old Athlete Jim Thorpe decided it was time to settle one point about the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm (after which he was disqualified as an amateur because he had played professional baseball) and threatened to sue the A.A.U. It was bad enough, he said, for the Olympic Committee...

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