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Power of the Pen. In Cleveland, Roy Sparmon, in jail awaiting trial on forgery charges, faced three more similar charges when officials caught him passing bum checks to buy himself cigarettes and magazines. In Roanoke, Va., a few days after M. E. Lisic was released from jail, police rearrested him on charges of forging a check to pay his $5 fine...
Feiner's trial began on May 6. The policemen who arrested him testified that Feiner had called the Syracuse mayor a "champagne-sipping bum," President Truman a "drunken bum," New York Mayor O'Dwyer a "bum," and American Legionnaires "Nazi Gestapo agents...
...John L. was a hotshot around the coal tipples, but on the sidewalks of New York he turned out to be strictly a stiff with a bum pitch. Last week, after eight days of trying, Lewis' flugelmen were badly beaten and muttering that they'd try again. They didn't say when...
...near-fatal auto crash. On the last green Sam eyed a tricky, 20-foot putt, then stepped up and tapped the ball with Hogan's putter. It rolled straight.and true for a birdie, a 67 for the round, 282 for the tournament. Said Sammy: "Who was the bum that started the story about I can't putt?" At 36, after ten tries, Sam Snead had finally won a Masters. It was his third tournament victory in a month...
...Broadway. The novel is like a good, steady provider ... the kind of fellow you can marry, who is ready to settle down . . . while the theater-that's the handsome guy who's a lot of fun, but you'd be a fool to marry him, the bum...