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Although he claimed he hadn't had "anything to drink," barrel-shaped Comic Lou Costello apparently bowed to circumstantial evidence after he was hauled into the Van Nuys, Calif, jail on a drunken driving rap. The cops' version of Costello's night flight: Lou drove out of his driveway, bounced off both his gateposts, headed off without headlights on the wrong side of the street, finally heard the prowl car's siren and stopped halfway on the sidewalk. After his lawyer pleaded guilty for him and paid a $150 fine, Comic Costello was led back...
...months since his father died, New Publisher William Randolph Hearst Jr. has started a quiet revolution in the Hearst publishing empire. "I don't want to rap the Old Man," said one Chicago Herald-American newsman last week, "but this is a young, vigorous organization now. We've changed. Local editors can put out their own papers now without waiting to hear from headquarters...
...Austrian Inventor and Munitions Salesman Antoine Gazda (who "beat an undesirable alien rap and got out, with McGrath's assistance...
...will] beat my heart and beat my brain . . . and lug me to . . . the lowest dives . . ." He wrote Replenishing Jessica, about a millionaire's promiscuous daughter. It became a bestseller in 1925; Bodenheim and his publisher were charged with selling obscene and indecent literature, but triumphantly beat the rap...
Died. George Remus, 78, "King of the Bootleggers," who piled up millions during Prohibition, spent it all beating a murder rap (the victim: his wife, who was trifling with an FBI man); after long illness ; in Covington, Ky. Originally a druggist, German-born Remus became a criminal lawyer, turned to bootlegging after seeing how easily he got acquittals for rich dry-law offenders. So wholesale were his operations that, on one occasion, a freight train chuffed into Cincinnati with 18 full carloads of liquor consigned to Remus. After shooting his wife in cold blood, he successfully defended himself...