Another 43, 000 copies, on average, are bought by newsstand customers, who most often take the bait with the obvious : In 1997, a sheeny apparition of " Farrah at Fifty " on the cover was a strong seller, but the checkout line equally warmed to an ode to West Texas, with Big Bend rancher Hallie Stillwell ( at 100 ) proudly holding her shotgun.
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Both of these claims are hoaxes, as shown by Elliot Dashfield writing in The American Mercury : Dinnerstein makes his now-famous claim that mobs of anti-Semitic Southerners, outside the courtroom where Frank was on trial, were shouting into the open windows Crack the Jew s neck ! and Lynch him ! and that members of the crowd were making open death threats against the jury, saying that the jurors would be lynched if they didn t vote to hang the damn sheeny .
