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...Raleigh, N. C., a defendant identified as a holdup man beat the case by the best of alibis: on the day of the robbery he was in North Carolina's chain gang, in no shape for crime...
Discovered running a vegetable juice stand at Palm Springs, Calif, were J. Richard ("Dixie") Davis, the late Manhattan gangster Dutch Schultz's lawyer who turned State's evidence on James J. Hines and the Schultz gang, and his redheaded, ex-showgirl wife, Hope Dare. Said Dixie: "All I want is to be left alone. Hope and I want a chance to live...
...exclaim: "The greatest World Series player I ever saw." Though Pepper Martin never again reached his 1931 World Series form, he became the most fabulous figure in baseball. They called him "The Wild Horse of the Osage." He was the loudest and toughest of the Cardinals' famed Gashouse Gang. Once, when he threw a ball during a game, yards of bandage unraveled from his hand. Manager Frisch stopped the game, learned to his amazement that Martin was playing with a broken finger. "Aw," said Pepper, "it's only a small bone." He horrified the Cardinals' President...
...This year's Tom Harmon is better than last year's. Toughened by a summer of lifeguarding the municipal beach of his home town, Gary, Ind. (and punting up & down the sand for at least an hour a day), Senior Harmon has been a one-man gang. Practically singlehanded, he mowed down California, Michigan State and Harvard, scoring a total of 69 points. It annoyed Illinois last year to hear him ballyhooed as a "second Red Grange." But now he was called "greater than Grange," "greater than Willie Heston" "greater than Jim Thorpe." Wags dubbed Michigan "Thomas Harmon...
...insult. Mr. Porter has worked with funny men before (Victor Moore, Jimmy Durante, Bert Lahr). But never with any so fundamentally low-down funny as these. In Panama Hattie one of them observes to his pal Ragland: "You make more cheap dolls than they do in Japan." They also gang up on a torso-rolling lady of the cast with the suggestion: "When you get that wound up, set it for seven...