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...Hungary, where he became a government official, Santo had hurled a final diatribe: "Rulers" are riding the American people to the profit of Wall Street, using "labor lackeys and traitor agents" to "turn back the tide of history." Escaping Hungary Santo told New York Herald Tribune Correspondent Barrett McGurn that he hoped for "asylum in my own country -America" where he would "take my chances with the American system." No longer was he worried about U.S. "labor lackeys" and "traitor agents." Said Santo: "I think Oct. 23 [when the uprising broke out] was the beginning of the end of Communism...
...News. Reporter Lahey soon became known to most of the cops and crooks, bigwigs and bartenders in the city. He earned a reputation as a 100-proof character, in the softhearted, hard-drinking Front Page tradition, who could also turn out a neat story. When "Machine Gun" Jack McGurn was killed in a South Side shooting match, Lahey wrote a sympathetic obituary in which he mentioned that the mobster had a weakness for golf and had bragged of qualifying for an Open tournament. At the end came the dash of bitters. "Jack was killed last night," wrote Lahey. "He died...
Last week, when the New York Herald Tribune's Barrett McGurn cabled the sad story, Maggiorani needed work...
...Army Captain John P. Simoni was an exasperated man last week. The AMG's chief educational officer in disputed Trieste perspired and wrung his hands. To New York Herald Tribune Correspondent Barrett McGurn he stormed: "What do children of grammar and junior high school age know about politics...
...Prince Alessandro Torlonio 24; a daughter, their first child; in Rome. Name: Sandra Vittoria Beatrice Maria. Born. To James Roosevelt, 28; and Betsey Gushing Roosevelt: their second daughter, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's sixth grandchild; in Manhattan. Weight: 8 Ib. Name: Katharine ("Kate"). Died. Jack ("Machine Gun") McGurn, né Gebhardi, 38, reputed onetime Capone No. 1 triggerman; shot twice in the back of the head by unidentified gunmen; in a Chicago bowling alley. Died- Roy Dikeman Chapin, 55, one of Hudson Motor Car Co.'s founders, its chief executive since 1910, except for the year...