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A Los Gatos woman who sat on Santa Clara County Civil Grand Jury of this year will lead the group next year, the authorities announced Friday.

The Superior Court judge Richard Loftus called Kathryn Janoff the grand jury foreman for the fiscal year beginning in July.

Current members of the grand jury Bicho Alfred Morgan Hill, Robert Buxton of Los Gatos and San Jose resident Gerard Roney has also been appointed for second.

The grand jury examined independently of the government issues around the county and reports from cities and agencies across the county, often suggesting reforms.

This story was found in the middle of a book called “ Stories Without Women (and a Few with Women)” written by Donn Byrne and published in 1915.  The book is a collection of short stories written about men doing manly things such as boxing, big game hunting, flying combat aircraft, etc.  It’s a real precursor to the adventure pulp magazines that were just starting to appear and would grow in popularity in 1920′s and continue to be what all really cool “men among men” read well into the 1960′s.   Byrne...

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