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...York City's Bronx Zoo, a rare Himalayan bear ate a peach. The pit stuck in his small intestine, killed him. A hippopotamus gulped a tube of toothpaste, grew violently ill. In the stomach of a cassowary dead of indigestion were found a golf ball, a metal doll, twelve pop bottle tops, a vanity case...
...open air amphitheatre of the Iowa State Fair Grounds, they equaled only a fraction of the 18,000 people who were in Des Moines that day to see the 26th annual Drake Relays The sky was dark and a chill April wind whistling past the microphones moaned like muted Bronx cheers through the amplifiers. Gone was Milo Reno's oldtime fire. He read his speech in a hurried monotone, anxious to get through before Huey Long's arrival distracted everyone's attention. Then Huey Long drove up with twelve policemen as his bodyguard and stopped...
...enterprises and rackets," he volunteered to reporters a partial biography. He is 33, was born in Manhattan's Yorkville, quit grammar school after the sixth grade, became a printer and pressman, then a roofer, a trade he abandoned when he was 17. Here the onetime master of The Bronx beerage, reputed boss of the policy game racket and the last of the great Prohibition Era gangsters left alive or at liberty, stopped, grinned. "You fellows will have to fill in the rest for yourselves," he said...
...McEvers opened for the Government, "this defendant had no known business, so far as we could learn, and had no bank accounts in his name. In June of 1928 he entered into partnership with Joe Noe, who ran a speakeasy . . . in The Bronx." Five months later Joe Noe was murdered. Flegenheimer took over the business...
...About that time the defendant opened a bank account. He operated that Bronx speakeasy . . . and then branched out. He took over a speakeasy [on] Third Avenue. He opened a new account under the name of Joseph Harmon...