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Chicago's criminals continued flourishing last week, such criminals as whoever it was that haled Footballer John C. Acher of Northwestern University out of his automobile on Michigan Avenue one night and pumped two slugs into him for scraping a fender as he drove past; and hardbitten Joe Saltis, gun-toting beer gangster, who was still at large last week after a six-month "search" by police who know him well...
...final quintessence of absolutism was achieved by the Fascist Regime, last week, when Signor Benito Mussolini drove through the Senate by a vote of 181 to 19 the new Constitutional amendment (TIME, Nov. 21) which makes the Fascist Grand Council an integral unit of the State, with power virtually to decide who may and who may not run for election to Parliament...
...Boston, clambered through the ropes and was attacked by young and clumsy Larry Brignola. As canny as an aged monkey, Britton stepped around the ring, warding the wild, drastic punches of his adversary. In the third round, Brignola knocked a false tooth from Britton's mouth. Therefore Jack Britton drove Brignola to the ropes and kept him there with feints and clinches, ordering the referee to find his tooth and keep it. When the referee had found his tooth, Jack Britton laughed and the fight went on until...
...relatives. "Perhaps Davey will see his way clear to ..." send a bespectacled niece to finishing school, house a carping old-maid cousin, finance the whims and mistresses of a charming but debauched artist brother. Sophie married Davey out of her need for him, but the omnipresence of his relatives drove her to a garish New York apartment, complete with lovelorn poets, exaggerated cigaret holders, and the Nietzschean superman who mightily desired her. Outnumbered and surrounded, David wins...
...cinemactress, sister of Mary Pickford, attended a Los Angeles night club, left it at 2 A. M. with one Jack Daugherty. Soon lost, they stopped to ask directions to Hollywood. Four men came up and knocked-out Mr. Daugherty with a blackjack. Then they grabbed little Lottie Pickford and drove away with her, beating and kicking her, taking $75 away from her. They did not get her diamond rings because she hid them in her shoes. While they were trying to rip a platinum bracelet from her wrist, she screamed at them in Spanish. This caused them to stop molesting...