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There was "Arizona Jimmy" Moore, wearing cowboy boots with his tuxedo, and Onofrio Lauri, whose favorite trick is to polish his bald pate with a handkerchief so that it will reflect the table lights into the eyes of his opponents. There, too, was Irving Crane, who in one year at Hobart College learned mostly how to run a rack so fast that his friends call him "Machine Gun." Luther ("Wimpy") Lassiter was on hand, cheerfully admitting that he has not done an honest day's work since he earned "810 an hour" delivering groceries at 15. Once Lassiter spotted...
Despite his age and 5-5, 150-pound frame, Hashim still is second only to Mohibulla in court coverage. Mohibulla often hit-corner shots that dropped like sponges, only to find his bald, bandy, legged uncle right there, waiting for the kill...
...stocky Hashim does not look like any kind of an athlete. He is bald, har bandy legs, and is only 5-51/2; his weight in the last 15 years has soared from 117 to 150. But when he starts to move to the court, it is a sight to behold...
Speaking for a unanimous court, Chief Justice Warren utterly rejected Singer's "bald proposition." The Constitution, he said, provides for no more and no less than "impartial trial by jury." To its framers, in fact, jury trial was such a vital shield against oppression that some of them regarded it as the only permissible way of determining guilt. Not until 1930 did the Supreme Court rule that defendants can waive jury trial in federal criminal cases but then only with permission of both judge and prosecutor...
Daddy Warbucks is in serious trouble. The egg-bald guardian of that ageless comic-strip carrot top, Little Orphan Annie, has been railroaded into a private insane asylum run by one Dr. Le Quaque. "Worse'n a real prison," says Annie, after casing the place and discovering that patients, as another strip character puts it, "as sane as anybody but labeled crazy are stuck here in this snake pit with no chance o' gettin...