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Near San Jose, Calif., Dentist Jasper Gattuccio came upon a rickety old cart drawn by a brace of burros, saw in it a picturesquely gnarled, full-bearded gaffer, delightedly got out his camera to snap a picture. From the wagon jumped Peter Voiss, 74, to collect a 50? fee, explaining that he eked out his meagre income as a prospector by posing for pictures. Dentist Gattuccio refused to pay, took the pi:ture, later returned to take another. As Jasper Gattuccio clicked the shutter, Peter Voiss reached into his wagon for a shotgun, shot him dead. Prospector Voiss was bundled...
Presented at Jasper Deeter's cooperative, experimental Hedgerow Theatre outside Philadelphia was Behold Your God, two-part "economic satire" by Richard Houghton Hepburn, 24, lanky brother of Cinemactress Katharine Hepburn. Behold Your God was the outcome of an agreement between Richard Hepburn and his father, Dr. Thomas N. Hepburn of Hartford, Conn., whereby Richard was to be "let alone" for three years to try his hand at drama. Professional critics found Behold Your God "dull." "extravagant/ "blurred," "inarticulate," "esoteric, ""luci< as a timetable...
...whatever temporary lead Harvard may have gained in the early stages of the meet was quickly blotted out as the Jasper runners started to pile up points in the middle distances while the Crimson runners failed to come through with the maximum number of points fondly hoped...
Representative C. (for Charles) Jasper Bell of Kansas City made the chief argument for the investigation. Said he: "The late years of depression . . . have been a fertile field in which these quacks and charlatans, these false prophets of social reform have promoted their schemes and rackets representing vast sums in unholy profits at the expense of tens of thousands of good and faithful but deluded followers. . . . I cast no reflection whatsoever on Dr. Townsend as a medical doctor. . . . but, as a doctor of the ills which afflict our social order, he is a charlatan and a quack...
...November elections. As the spear point of the counterattack, Representative Bell could afford to take the risk of sponsoring the Townsend inquiry because back of him in Kansas City is Boss Tom Pendergast with his redoubtable political machine. To other Congressmen their lesser risk seemed well worth taking: Jasper Bell, at the worst, would probably be able to discredit the Townsend Plan by showing that a lot of oldsters' dues money was going down a hopeless drain...