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When mystery story writer Craig Rice was covering the Heirens murder story for a Chicago paper, Hillman called to get some dope on her assignment, was invited to go along on "a terrific clue that may break the case." It turned out to be some strange pencil scribblings on a package that one of Rice's readers had received from Sears, Roebuck and Co. It was, of course...
Taut, 43-year-old Vito Marcantonio was born in the congressional district he lives in and represents. To its gunmen, madams, policy and dope peddlers, he is "The Hon. Fritto Misto" (Mixed Fry), the man who began as a Republican with the blessing of East Harlem's Fiorello LaGuardia, the man who ladles out jobs, pocket money, speeches-anything for votes...
Ludwig Bemelmans, cosmopolitan chronicler of life backstairs (Hotel Splendide), headed home from London after giving Britons his inside dope on Hollywood, where he spent three years. "If you stay too long," said he gravely, "you wake up one day and find you are 84 and it's all been a pleasant dream...
...Detecting new traces of dope in the nation's underworld, the Bureau of Narcotics got busy, traced the dope to WAA. Dope peddlers had been buying surplus life rafts to get the rafts' medicine kits. Each one contained five syrettes of morphine (2½ grains...
...usual, Bill Corum will pitch the pregame dope and color, the highlights and summary after the last out. As usual, he will leave the Mutual play-by-play to professional announcers. The two men who will describe the action this year are comparative newcomers to a coast-to-coast audience, but familiar voices in the East...