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...near the scene of the crime instead of outside the county, John ("Garry") Scaccio, henchman of pasty-faced Gangster Jack ("Legs") Diamond, went on trial at Catskill, N. Y. last week. He was accused of torturing a Greene County cider hauler in the course of an applejack war. In Troy last month Gangster Diamond was acquitted of a part in the same crime on the strength of an alibi supported by a "physio-therapeutist" who has since become the State's target for perjury proceedings (TIME, July 27). It took only 40 min. and one ballot for a jury...
Equally convinced was the State public that pasty-faced Jack ("Legs") Diamond, on trial at Troy, was guilty of torturing Farmer Grover Parks because of an applejack-whiskey war. Carefully Attorney General John James Bennett Jr., specially ordered by Governor Roosevelt to rid the Catskills of gangsters (TIME, May 11), had prepared evidence that Diamond himself strung the farmer up himself lit matches and held them under the farmer's wriggling feet, himself set fire to Parks's old-fashioned underdrawers. Three State witnesses placed Diamond near the scene of the crime around the time it happened. Five...
...picnic in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, N. Y. It was an overcast, showery day. Few attended besides the organizing committee and the family of grey-mustached, bespectacled Dr. Henry Oscar Rockefeller, national president of the R. F. A. Perhaps because of the weather, there was no hilarity. The picnic at Troy, N. Y. last year heard Grace F. Rockefeller speak on "Rockefellers in the Battle of Saratoga." The fourth district (New Jersey) often listens to an entire family of Rockefeller musicians. Sample game played in the second district: "We . . . formed two lines facing each other. With the outer covers...
Described as a "fairy opera for the childlike," Jack and the Beanstalk is retold in the naively sophisticated manner which Author Erskine found profitable in his novel The Private Life of Helen of Troy. Jack, a soprano, loses gold, a hen and a magic harp to a Gargantuan bass giant. An old woman tricks him out of his faithful cow, burlesqued by two bassos who lyricize fore & aft. The harridan gives him a handful of beans which grow into the familiar beanstalk; he retrieves his treasures from the giant, who at last turns out to be an inflated rubber figure...
...Edward Wilcox Babcock, Troy...