Word: hotheadedness
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Big-league baseball used to be a seasonal occupation. Come fall, a player could clean up his shotgun, untangle his fishing tackle, or just loaf on the front porch waiting for spring. If he needed spare cash, he could act like a businessman. Then eager-beaver bushers discovered a gold...
Died. Francis Mariotte (alias Frank Diamond), 61, Al ("Scarface") Capone's muscleboy during the racketeering heydays of the '205 and '303; of a shotgun blast (triggerman unknown) fired as he was opening his garage in Chicago's West Side. Swarthy, hotheaded Hoodlum Mariotte made a fortune...
Meanwhile, New York, fully aware of the censorship problem, was waiting for the story. A little after 6 o'clock that Saturday evening, Clara Applegate, in TIME'S Foreign News Bureau in New York, answered her phone. It was Rosenhouse on the line. A sympathetic censor had allowed...
A hotheaded, overbearing man, Frontenac quarreled constantly with other colonial officials, not only over administrative affairs but also to get more than his share of the graft from the rich fur trade. He was far less pugnacious with the Indians. Eccles claims that in the critical year of 1681 Frontenac...
More meaty is the 40-minute Hello Out There, adapted from William Saroyan's play and composed by a newcomer, Jack Beeson, 32, a student of the late Bela Bartok. Trapped in a Texas county jail sits an easygoing gambler falsely charged with rape, and in danger of being...