Jr Reynolds: 516 books

Nick Civella led a Kansas City Mafia that was very influential in Teamsters Union issues, especially the matter of the lucrative Central States Pension Fund. Control of the fund was greatly coveted by the Chicago mob as well. Civella used loans from the fund to finance his entry into the Tropicana...

The Toronto Maple Leafs were an unsuccessful team for the majority of the 1950s except for the 1951 Stanley Cup Champs who beat the Montreal Canadiens in the finals. The team found it difficult to regain the winning form that had made the teams of the late 1940s so successful. Yet there were veterans...

The wooden scaffolding surrounding the upper floors of the new skyscraper hotel, Sherry-Netherland, began burning on the night of April 12, 1927. It's uncertain how the magnificent blaze ignited. However one fire marshal believed a salamander heater left behind by plaster workers might have been...

Ann Yarrow was an honor student at Guilford College, where she graduated in 1953. A devoutly religious woman, she attended Society of Friends' services in Queens, the home of her mother and stepfather. A master's degree candidate at New York University she studied sociology and psychology...

Marthe Regnier was a French actress and dress designer who came to prominence in her roles in Manon (1910) and Mayerling (1936). She also dated men of prominence and power like Baron de Rothschild and Murellini, the Brazilian ambassador to France. She was a woman who was very much ahead of her time...

In August 1943 Norwegian-American CBS correspondent Eric Sevareid was aboard a C-46 transport plane that crashed en route to Chunking, China. The army command transport came down in the Burmese jungle near the Chinese border. The aircraft was carrying State Department dignitaries as well as British...

Paco Godia entered a works Maserati in the 1951 Spanish Grand Prix, thus becoming the first Formula One driver in his country's history. After this he drove intemittently throughout the 1950s until he quit in 1958. Paco Godia became a patron of the arts in his own country, establishing the Fundacion Francisco Godia in Barcelona.

The evening of May 10, 1970, found a young Watt M. Casey Jr. standing awestruck, only a few feet from Jimi Hendrix as the legendary guitarist tore into his unique arrangement of “The Star-Spangled Banner” on the stage of San Antonio’s Hemisphere Arena during the Texas leg of his Cry of Love...

This volume explores adult work-world writing issues from the perspectives of five seasoned professionals who have logged hundreds of hours working with adults on complicated written communication problems. It examines the gap between school-world instructional practices and real-world problems and...

**You are an explorer in a galaxy of worlds... ** ...with countless stories to delve into or even just try out. Inside, you are the rescuer of the kitten who rescues you right back. You are the citizen making a life-or-death decision. You are the teenager experiencing her first...

Discover why routers in the Juniper MX Series—with their advanced feature sets and record-breaking scale—are so popular among enterprises and network service providers. This revised and expanded edition shows you step-by-step how to implement high-density, high-speed Layer 2 and Layer 3 Ethernet...

For half a century René Girard’s theories of mimetic desire and scapegoating have captivated the imagination of thinkers and doers in many fields as an incisive look into the human condition, particularly the roots of violence. In a 1993 interview with Rebecca Adams, he highlighted the positive...