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Died. Catherine T. Coll Wheelwright, 74, mother of President Eamon de Valera of the Irish Free State; after long illness; in Rochester, N. Y. An Irishwoman from Bruree, County Limerick, she bore President de Valera by her first husband (Vivian de Valera, a Spanish sculptor and musician long dead) hard by where Manhattan's Chrysler Building now stands...
...club demonstrating a tap-dance were these lines in the august New York Times fortnight ago: "Five planes brought dozens of machine gats from Chicago Friday to combat The Town's Capone. . . . Local banditti have made one hotel a virtual arsenal and several hotspots are ditto because Master Coll is giving them the headache. One of the better Robin Hoods has a private phone in his cell...
...words, of course, were not the Times's own; they were quoted from the gossip-colyum of Walter Winchell in the tabloid Daily Mirror. Directly and indirectly they made Walter Winchell news last week: directly because his colyum was on the street only six hours before Gangster Vincent Coll was machine-gunned to death in a telephone booth, and Colyumist Winchell (who had been frightened into getting a police bodyguard) was summoned before the Grand Jury to explain his advance information; indirectly because they precipitated a new climax in a long-standing squabble between Winchell and Publisher Albert John...
...Vincent Coll incident caused a new ruckus. Publisher Kobler, startled by the implication that Winchell was privy to the councils of murderers, barred colyumist & secretary from any part of the Mirror building save their own small office...
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