Word: gunman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Joker. Not tragicomic, but like a pathetic and futile story by Morley Callaghan. was last week's tale of Alice Kenny Schiffer Diamond. She married Jack ("Legs") Diamond (a consumptive gunman who was destined to be gangland's clay pigeon before he died), in 1917 after he had deserted the Army...
Joseph Ventre, a cheap little crook indicted with the dead gunman's widow, was not long in telling the police the whole story. He and a man named Pace had been living with Mrs. Coll. They had been supporting themselves by petty stickups until Mrs. Coll. accustomed to doughtier deeds, urged them to "give up this five-and-ten-cent-store business." Thereupon the trio tried to abduct a jeweler, who surprised them by running swiftly down the street instead of getting in their car. Pace went flying after him, wildly firing a revolver. The jeweler escaped unscathed...
...worried. At Avondalc they had to stop to pick up a single passenger- Everett Jason, a long-repressed model husband who was methodically running away from his wife. Martin Knox, criminal lawyer, was bringing a secret star witness back East: red-headed Lena Karelsen, whose evidence would free his gunman client, smash the political ring. Three people were on Knox's trail: Representative Tom Linscott, mouthpiece of the ring, Newspaperwoman Ada Robillard, once Knox's mistress but now Linscott's fiancée, Private Detective Izzard, whose job was to bribe or kill Knox's witness...
...Chicago, when a gunman held up Fruiterer Nicholas Ramos, he did not notice that in pulling out his gun he also pulled out a $10 bill, which fell on the floor. The gunman took $3 from the cash register, departed. Nicholas Ramos picked up the $10, rang...
Chief Hearst gunman for 1932 is 75-year-old Frederick Burr Opper, creator of "Happy Hooligan." Never an art student, Cartoonist Opper worked long for oldtime Puck, joined the Hearst press in 1899, first won fame & fortune with his cartoons of theMcKinley-Bryan campaign of 1900. For 30 years Arthur Brisbane has contributed political ideas for the Opper pencil. Early in this campaign "Happy Hooligan" was allowed to lapse when Publisher Heartst put Mr. Opper to work on a daily front-page series entitled "Erbie and 'Is Playmates" * In these cartoons the President was always depicted as a fat little...