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(See Cover) He clasps the crag with crooked hands . . . he watches from his mountain walls, and like a thunderbolt he falls.
"This mouthy, pretentious, calculating little climber . . . this degraded knave . . . this glib, vulgar, slippery little jackleg . . . that posturing sometime reformer . . . the twenty-two goats and monkeys who composed the grand jury . . . this blank-brained menagerie, bamboozled by transparent obfuscations ... the gang of sneaking child-cheaters . . . these two low, skulking rogues . . . and...
No big Capone-model bootleg rings have been uncovered. Most bootleggers are independent operators from petty rackets (like pinball machines), race tracks, dance-halls; many are once-legitimate tire dealers. Whether in Maine or Utah the procedure is the same: the motorist makes contact through his own filling station, is...
Every year 300,000 youngsters go through the painful and costly ordeal of having their crooked teeth clamped into braces to be straightened. Last week in New Orleans the men who make the braces, the Inter-American Orthodontic Congress, met to discuss new ways of clamping down on unruly young...
Huey Long's machine fell apart after an assassin's bullet knocked Huey out of the driver's seat in 1935. But the machine has been patched up. This week it rolled as smoothly as ever through the quaint, crooked streets of New Orleans.