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...ease after his deportation in 1946, a Luciano lieutenant complained: "Any time anything happens anywhere, they turn the heat on us. Sure, Lucky and I played around with bootlegging and the numbers rackets-who didn't? But all that stuff about narcotics and vice rings is just a crock of baloney...
...starts in the office of a college president. Talking to the prexy is the dean, a venerable old crock who has read the college charter and can't find anything in it about sports...
...face had moved Critic Burton Rascoe to exclaim: "Never have I seen a man ... so easy, free and natural, so untamed by society, so untouched by conventions, so spontaneous, pagan, joyous." Stephens reminded Rascoe of the leprechauns, the gnomelike creatures the poet had written about in The Crock of Gold, along with the god Pan, philosophers, children, wives, cops, fairies and other inhabitants of the bizarre half-world of Cloca Mora...
Died. James Stephens, 68, gnomelike Irish poet, storyteller and authority on leprechauns (The Crock of Gold); of a heart attack; in London (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...Best Friend. In Howell, Mich., the burglars who broke into the American Legion Club set a two-gallon crock of pig hocks on the barroom floor, rifled the place while the watchdog feasted...