GILMORE GIRL

Lost in this maskerade.

It’s a particular joy of pulp hunting that we learn about personalities we never heard of before. Fatale Maskerade, which we found Friday in a bookstore in the Jordaan area of Amsterdam, was written by Inez Haynes Irwin, aka Inez Haynes Gilmore, who was well known as a political activist, co-founder of the National Collegiate Equal Suffrage League, and member of the National Advisory Council of the National Women’s Party. All news to us. As a writer, she created a popular mystery franchise known as the Maida series, and one of her short stories won the O. Henry Award for fiction in 1924. Gilmore died in 1970, but her books have become collector’s items, according to the online sources we consulted. That means we possibly could have turned a small profit on Fatale Maskerade, but instead we made a gift of it after unexpectedly being invited to a birthday party. Easy come, easy go.

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The headlines that mattered yesteryear.

September 10

1935—Huey Long Assassinated

Governor of Louisiana Huey Long, one of the few truly leftist politicians in American history, is shot by Carl Austin Weiss in Baton Rouge. Long dies after two days in the hospital.

September 9

1956—Elvis Shakes Up Ed Sullivan

Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time, performing his hit song “Don’t Be Cruel.” Ironically, a car accident prevented Sullivan from being present that night, and the show was guest-hosted by British actor Charles Laughton.

September 8

1966—Star Trek Airs for First Time

Star Trek, an American television series set in the twenty-third century and promoting socialist utopian ideals, premieres on NBC. The series is cancelled after three seasons without much fanfare, but in syndication becomes one of the most beloved television shows of all time.

September 8

1974—Ford Pardons Nixon

U.S. President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have committed while in office, which coincidentally happen to include all those associated with the Watergate scandal.

September 7

1978—Giorgi Markov Assassinated

Bulgarian dissident Giorgi Markov is assassinated in a scene right out of a spy novel. As he’s waiting at a bus stop near Waterloo Bridge in London, he’s jabbed in the calf with an umbrella. The man holding the umbrella apologizes and walks away, but he is in reality a Bulgarian hired killer who has just injected a ricin pellet into Markov, who develops a high fever and dies three days later.