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Nothing can hurt the duck but its bill," Larry Hoover liked to tell members of his gang. The parable--one of many bits of wisdom the leader of the largest street gang in the U.S. was fond of imparting to his followers--implied that a duck is safe so long as it doesn't open its mouth and start making noise. It was a sound precept. And one that "the Chairman," as he is known, no doubt reflected upon during the eight weeks he spent in a Chicago federal courtroom watching the jury listen to secretly recorded conversations through which...
DIED. THOMAS CONNOR, 91, last surviving member of the fbi squad that gunned down Public Enemy No. 1, John Dillinger, in 1934; in Southbury, Connecticut. A minor bureau clerk whose on-the-diamond skills got noticed by baseball fanatic J. Edgar Hoover, Connor was drafted as a special agent, and ended up stationed in a Chicago alley during Dillinger's final and fatal showdown...
...physician who nearly did lose her license is Dr. Katherine Hoover, formerly of Key West, Florida. In December 1993, Hoover got into trouble with Florida authorities because she had treated the chronic pain of seven of her 15,000 patients with narcotics. A pain specialist testified at her 1995 hearing that she was practicing within accepted guidelines. But the review board censured her anyway--a decision that was reversed on appeal. Says Hoover, who now practices in West Virginia: "There is a belief that anyone who prescribes narcotics is a bad doctor...
Katharine Hepburn turns 90 next month, and there will be the usual round of parties and tell-all books to celebrate the event. One of them, An Affair to Remember by Christopher Andersen, tells the story of how J. Edgar Hoover wanted to blow open the secret affair between Hepburn and Spencer Tracy because of Hepburn's opposition to the House Un-American Activities Committee. Why didn't he? He was talked out of it by a young committee member: Richard Nixon...
Fellow conservatives, such as Thomas Sowell '58, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, have in turn criticized Glazer for his opposition to the CCRI, most notably in a recent article in The Weekly Standard...