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...Maude Ault and her son, Robert Eugene, who had been running a gas station near Decatur, Ill., visited Mrs. Ault's brother, Lorenson K. Bandy, in River Forest (Chicago suburb) and told him about a certain Max Orendorff, who: 1) had been one of their farmer acquaintances; 2) had turned bootlegger; 3) had made a fortune in the days when Capone flourished; 4) had been sent to Atlanta. If the Aults could help him get out of prison, said Mrs. Ault, Max Orendorff had promised to make it well worth their while...
Such is the true ancestry of L'il Joe, Big Dick, and Ada from Decatur...
Edgar Bergen is a 34-vear-old Delta Upsilon from Northwestern. Born in Chicago of Swedish parents, raised in Decatur, he was a talented ventriloquist, magician and odd-jobs-man before he enrolled in the speech department. At Northwestern he scraped up $35 to have Charlie McCarthy made by a wood carver named Charlie Mack. The model was an Evanston newsboy. After college, Bergen and McCarthy took a job in a vaudeville house near Chicago's stockyards, doing four shows a day for $8 a week and enduring a smell Charlie didn't notice. Bergen's radio and motion picture...
...Decatur...
Four young Negroes ran out of the courthouse in Decatur, Ala. at last week's end and ducked into waiting automobiles. Following them came the nation's current No. 1 criminal lawyer, smiling, muscular Samuel Simon Liebowitz, 43, who four years ago promised thousands of howling, cheering Negroes in Manhattan's dark Harlem: "We'll march those Scottsboro boys up Lenox Avenue...