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Grace Moore killed... Black Dahlia murders...
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January 27, 1947
THE DETROIT NEWS, Detroit, Michigan, January 27, 1947
* Grace Moore killed in airplane crash
* Opera singer & actress
* Black Dahlia - Elizabeth Short murder
This 30 page newspaper has a two column headline on the front page: "Grace Moore Killed; Air Death Toll Is 54 in Week-End Crashes" with subheads.
Also one column headings on the front page: "Dahlia Killer taunts Police" and "Says in Note He Will Give Up Wednesday".
Other news, sports and advertisements of the day throughout. Rag edition, large area of light browning on the ftpg, otherwise nice.
wikipedia notes: Grace Moore (December 5, 1898 - January 26, 1947) was an American operatic soprano and Academy Award-nominated actress in musical theatre and film, nicknamed the "Tennessee Nightingale." Her films helped to popularize opera by bringing it to a larger audience.
Grace Moore died in a plane crash near the Copenhagen, Denmark airport on January 26, 1947, at the age of 48. Among the other plane crash victims was Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden, who was at the time second in line to the Swedish throne and who was the father of the present King of Sweden, King Carl XVI Gustaf. She is buried in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Moore's life story was made into a movie, So This is Love, in 1953, starring North Carolina-born singer Kathryn Grayson. A collection of her papers is housed at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.
Category: The 20th Century
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