Word: loudnesses
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...Chicago last week, Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone appeared at the Municipal Courthouse to answer a charge of vagrancy, the antique legal device by which loud Judge John Homer Lyle once hoped to curb the city's banditti (TIME, Oct. 13). The officer who had signed the complaint against Scarface admitted that he did not know him, could not swear that the gangster was without legal means of support or "frequented disreputable resorts...
...nagua's banks. Four other persons, thirst-crazed, were shot by Marines as they tried to drink the polluted lake waters. Soldiers shot two grave diggers who refused to go on with their heart-breaking task. Saturday night, as Marines snatched a moment of sleep, a loud fusillade rang out. A U. S. lieutenant and a Guardia sergeant. both nerve-frazzled beyond self-control, had gone at each other with pistol and submachine gun. The lieutenant was killed...
More extraordinary than either Weaver or Lombardi is Jerome Herman ("Dizzy") Dean, 20-year-old rookie pitcher on last year's champion St. Louis Cardinals. Like loud Art ("the Great") Shires, last year's Washington and Chicago freak, Pitcher Dean self-consciously copies the manners of Author Ring Lardner's fictional rookie baseballers, causing his luggage to be emblazoned by complimentary legends and boasting "there ain't no one can touch me when I bear down." Pitcher Dean stated he would win 20 games...
Neither of the associations is as incongruous as it might seem. Editor Lippmann, no party man, and Banker Lament, no reactionary, are both ''middle grounders" in their professions. The Herald Tribune is heavily committed to the G. O. P. but its voice is quick and loud in criticism of its party, especially during the present Administration. Manned by alert, enterprising editors, it has made itself a daily bible for young executives as well as aging Tories. Proof in itself of the paper's enterprise was its engagement of celebrated Liberal Lippmann, who will be permitted to write...
...Loud have been Mr. Brunt's protests against the expansion policy of Container Corp. President Paepcke answered: "It is very easy to comment on the wisdom of our judgment in the light of after events, but it comes with ill grace from one who voted in favor of each acquisition before it was made...