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...Long Song. One day last August, Morrison was picked up for burglary, and the cops who locked him up were not in his tidy plan of loot and split. Faced with a stiff sentence, he decided to sing. Last week the good Chicago cops were rounding up the bad ones ; all over town charges of police crime bubbled up. In the burgeoning scandal, 17 policemen were arrested on criminal charges, and upwards of 130 (of a police force of 11,200) were haled into special offices in Chicago's Conrad Hilton Hotel to take lie-detector tests. The total...
...Britain's doughty Conductor Sir Thomas Beecham, 80, steamed by train into Pittsburgh, hit his typical stride by riding from his Pullman sleeper to the depot on a baggage cart. After being pushed some 300 yds. (the length of eleven passenger cars) by a Pennsylvania Railroad cop and a Pittsburgh Symphony flack, Sir Thomas met the usual pack of newshounds, barked with a keen pitch for the headlines. As for the "lollipops concerts" that he planned to conduct, it would be the "soothing, soporific" music that he customarily plays for encores. Said he: "It places no strain...
...alternate section a lady I would not care to have judge me on a jaywalking rap"), offering advice on uxoricide ("The best way to murder your wife is to have a few drinks with her, pull out your revolver and shoot her, then head for the nearest cop and hand him the gun"), and from first to last reporting the trial in breezy, firehouse prose...
...Mocambohemian. "The Baron," as his buddies called him, built the usual $125,000 mansion and kept a yacht, filled both of them with "roisterers, fun guys, rompers" and the sort of girls they liked to romp with. To the pressagents' delight, he became notorious as a columnist puncher, cop clobberer and practical joker -the fellow who wired the ladies' room at home and walked through downtown Chicago with a half-grown lion on a leash...
...killers. "I don't know exactly who did it, but I do know the Chicago mob was behind it," a shaken Ray Brennan told the coroner. "There are some other people you can bring here. Touhy had three enemies and he talked about them often. He regarded [ex-Cop Tubbo] Gilbert as his worst enemy. [Jake the Barber] Factor was Number 2, and [ex-State's Attorney] Thomas J. Courtney was Number 3. I'm not making any accusations; I'm simply saying what Touhy used...