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...Attorney's office was the story which McLane in bolder mood had breathed to the grand jury. Two years ago, Nitti had summoned him to a conference. Present, according to McLane's testimony, were Willie Bioff, a convicted pander; Nick Dean, alias Circella, a convicted crook; Louis Romano, who McLane said was a former Capone bodyguard; and fleshy George E. Browne, recently raised from fourteenth to twelfth vice president...
Died. Eddie Guerin, 80, Irish-born international crook, bank robber and purse-snatcher; in poverty, at Bury, Lancashire, England. Celebrated for his criminal exploits in collaboration with the legendary "Chicago May" Churchill, who helped him stick up the American Express office in Paris, Guerin made a sensational escape from Devil's Island in 1905, only to find, when he reached London, that "Chicago May" had deserted him for a new lover...
...Cornell cheering section, nestled in the crook of Schoellkopf crescent, chanted their plea for a touchdown. The game was only ten minutes old, but their beloved Big Red had already crossed Columbia's goal line once, had just intercepted a Columbia pass, and there they were on the visitors' 20-yd. line. Go they did - for another touchdown in the second quarter, two more in the third. As twilight settled above Cayuga's waters, Cornell had scored its fifth straight victory this season...
Brother Joseph, munitions crook, Brother Laurent, biologist. Best sequences: ratlike professional jealousies between two of Laurent's superiors; Laurent's innocent involvement in a cumulative scandal culminating, on the brink of World War I, in the ruin of his career. Worst: goo-goo over Cecile and her baby. The book's literary style, if any, is murdered by a have-you-seen-the-garden-of-my-aunt translation...
...second feature, "Earthbound," is a passable likeness of "Topper." Stoutish, ectoplasmic Warner Baxter plays Jiminy Cricket to pretty Andrea Leeds. She, shapely and substantial, makes the show and catches the crook...