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Florence Horner was the victim of a little-known case of child abduction from the 1940s. Had it happened today, it would surely be a media sensation. In 1948, as part of a club initiation, 11-year-old Florence Sally Horner stole a five-cent notebook from a dime store in Camden, NJ. Frank La Salle, a 50-year-old mechanic, witnessed the theft and saw a perverted opportunity: He told Horner he was an FBI agent, and threatened to send her to 'a place for girls like you' if she didn't co-operate with him. La Salle abducted Horner and spent 21 months travelling with her through different American states all the while using Horner as his sex slave. LaSalle posed as Horner's father on their travels, even going as far as enrolling Horner in local schools. While attending school in Dallas, she confided her situation to a classmate. Later she escaped from La Salle and phoned her sister at home, asking her to 'send the FBI.' La Salle was arrested at a California motor court but claimed he was Florence's father. However, an FBI investigation found that Horner's true father had died seven years previously. La Salle was sentenced under the Mann Act to 30 to 35 years in prison. Literary scholars believe the Horner case at least partially inspired Vladimir Nabokov's famous novel Lolita. In fact, there is a reference to the Horner case in Part II, Chapter 33 of the novel. Nabokov also uses the adjective 'Florentine' to describe Lolita--likely an allusion to Florence Horner.
Like the fictional Lolita, Florence Horner died young: She was killed in a car accident near Woodbine, New York, on August 18, 1952. Two days later the Associated Press reported, 'Florence Sally Horner, a 15-year-old Camden, N.J., girl who spent 21 months as the captive of a middle-aged morals offender a few years ago, was killed in a highway accident when the car in which she was riding plowed into the rear of a parked truck.'
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Added: 11th May 2011
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Maybe this time around, like now, you can remember something that you may of attended and really identified with. True, the possibilities are infinite with not only here, but with something else found. Something that has harkened back to the your days that were innocent and careless. Back then, that is when life was something that never bothered you. Do you have a moment to give an answer?
Take the step.
UPDATED: THIS GAME IS SOLVED BY ERIC.
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What
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Added: 12th May 2011
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I just realized that I haven't played this game in a while. So without a snafu of troubles, let's give it a try with you. Who can reveal it?
Like it? This ain't complicated. It never is.
A time that you may of just remembered...
UPDATED: ANSWERED!
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Added: 26th May 2011
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JAMES ARNESS was born in Minneapolis, MN on May 26, 1923 passed away on June 3, 2011 at the age of 88 from natural causes.
He served his country in the army during WWII at Anzio He was wounded in his right leg and received the Purple Heart. He is best known for his role of Marshal Matt Dillon in the TV series Gunsmoke. Gunsmoke ran from 1955-1975 and is still on the air today being discovered by many old and new fans alike.
Over the 20 years of Gunsmoke he worked with 100’s of actors, some of them just starting out like Harrison Ford, Burt Reynolds, Charles Bronson, and Betty Davis.
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Added: 3rd June 2011
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Remember a few guys (6) who were from Ocala, Florida? Ultimately, they became a novelty at the tail-end of grooving '66. Yeah, yeah, that would of been December of that year. I recall it like it was yesterday, even though, it has been a very long period of time since.
What about you and your suburban life then? I'd be humming it and trying to mimic German badly. I guess back then, I was too busy on keeping my eyes on the sky? The funny thing about them, the recurring topic that was uplifed in the air was always with them. I'm talkin' of the pilot-dog. Yep, he did come up (get it?) seven more times with them. But hold on! Wait just one sec! True, they did branch out as well. If you are alike me, you got a real fondness for something so good - it makes you smile.
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Added: 17th July 2011
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It seemed like a sickly, cruel game to the wife, but it wasn't. Back in 1973, a couple inherited a big mansion from long, long ago. A creaky, but beautiful manor from the inside, but it had a secret housed deep below. Her well-meaning husband didn't have a clue about mysterious residents. At night, they would consistently reveal themselves sneakily without his knowledge. She crucially insisted that she was right about what was happening without any help coming. The weirdness continued with great tension, as she had good reasons to be frightened of the dark, and wondering what is it in the basement wall that she refused to bide with? Quick, get a Rottweiler!
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Demarest
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Hutton
Kim
Darby
Added: 6th June 2011
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What makes me tell you that I ain't no smartypants, or to even acknowledge that most of you are way smarter than me. Well, could it be a mystery? Or could it just be the embarrassment of knowing that I ain't even slightly any smarter as the lot of you. I feel so ashamed to tell you this now. Usually, I am just going through it all saying, Wow, you always present yourselves as being extremely smart. People, c'mon, you know me. I like that, right? I'm Mister Smiley.
You have nothing to worry about. I'm drinking concentrated wheat beer. An unsettling taste. I thought I'd make it last with a few ounces of water.
So forget about being so rigid, and every darn thing going on around you and tell me, is it you who can give the not so impossible answer? I thought it would be a sinch? Really? I don't think I'm being unrealistic here? Hey, by the way, there is no good reason for being worrisome either today. Why is that? The backyard garden awaits you this weekend. You do have the prettiest flowers. By the way, I could pass the hint of .... Prior to the year of 1973, there was ....... That's a nice clue to any mystery.
Are you paying attention to this, friend. You are my friend, right? COOL. I am waiting!
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ATTENTION! Looks to me that Carouselle has figured it out.
I think that is great! Really.
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Added: 10th June 2011
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Well, I haven't been so hard on you people. Not yet. I'm not so terrible at making you think, am I? I just want to lead you the way into something that you may know or have liked better than taking the blame for what you did last week. Going over the fringe with remodeling your apartment with a gas powered chainsaw. That's gotta be the mistake of the year. Now, I want you to tell me something. Are you ready to provide me with what I would like to know? Real ready to make a decision. Let's bring us up to speed, friend. *E*
UPDATE: Seems that Carouselle has identified! Lots of help had been coming along. I believe, he already knew it.
Great!
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Remember
it
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Know
it
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Forgot
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Added: 14th June 2011
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Ever been to Hoboken, New Jersey? That's where the situated story occurs. It is a well-known city for a number of reasons. Care to share like a friend already has. For a start, how about the place where Frank was born. You do know the Frank I am referring, right? If you can recall the spring of 1979, you may remember the emulated story that was popular at the time. Amy and Michael brought much realism to something that made it easier to talk about. You know what I mean. It was fearless in the way it showed something that wasn't easy to talk of, but it came off right with emotions and gestures perfectly. People can say whatever they want about it, but with many, including me; I can really appreciate something like it. I wish I was back there again with the crowd. They don't make people pleasing stories like it these days.
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Sinatra
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Added: 19th June 2011
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During the First world War, most of Canada's young able-bodied males enlisted in the military. As a result the quality of men's hockey dropped dramatically. For a short time, women's pro hockey took center stage--and Albertine Lapensee briefly and mysteriously became a superstar.
Nicknamed 'the Miracle Maid,' the 26-year-old Lapensee played for her hometown Cornwall (Ontario) Victorias. Her hockey debut came in January 1916 against Ottawa; she scored five of the six goals in Cornwall's victory. Immediately after her debut game, Ottawa players complained that she was really a man. Suspicions and accusations dogged her the rest of her brief career.
A week after her debut, Lapensee scored four goals in an 8-0 shutout against the Montreal Westerns before a crowd of about 3,000 fans. At one point the Montreal players yanked off Lapensee's toque to see how long her hair was. (She had braids that fell past her shoulders.)
The continuous rumors about Lapensee's gender prompted her hometown newspaper, the Cornwall Standard, to vouch for her. Miss Lapensee, it said, '...played more with her brothers and other boys than with her girlfriends, and this accounts for the masculine style of play she has developed.' Furthermore, 'Scores of people in East Cornwall have known her since her infancy.'
Albertine played on, indifferent to the rumours, and the fans didn't seem to mind too much either, as large crowds came to watch her play. In one game she scored 15 goals. When the Victorias agreed to play against the Ottawa Alerts, the Vics' manager had to guarantee Lapensee's appearance by contract. She even behaved like her male counterparts off the ice. She once refused to play until she had been paid, which nearly caused a riot.
Although scoring records for the time are incomplete, they indicate Albertine scored about 80 percent of Cornwall's goals in the 1916-1917 season. The next season, Lapensee led her team to an undefeated season.
Then, after two spectacular seasons, Albertine Lapensee vanished. There is no record of her playing hockey again--at least as Albertine Lapensee. Family legend says she went to New York in 1918 and had a sex change operation. She/he supposedly married and settled down to run a gas station near Cornwall under the name of Albert Smyth. There are no known photos of Lapensee. Her story is not widely known--not even in Canada.
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Added: 24th June 2011
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