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...gangland war. Prospective war zone: the operative territory of famed Racketeer Jack ("Legs") Diamond. This territory begins in Brooklyn, N. Y., where henchmen of Diamond and Charles ("Vannie") Higgins are blamed for periodic battles with gangs reputed to be led by Angelo ("Little Augie") Pisano, heir to the eminence of the late Frankie Yale (TIME, July 9, 1928). Far out on the westward highways, however, speed Diamond's trucks, delivering beer to roadhouse customers. The leader has many activities, was arrested and released for a killing last year in the Hotsy-Totsy night club, Manhattan...
...Capone? In the police lineup Chauffeur Dalton said he had just seen his employer off for Europe on the S. S. Baltic. Newsgatherers, who already had heard rumors that Chicago's Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone planned a return to Brooklyn (his birthplace) in support of "Little Augie" Pisano, immediately conjectured that Diamond had prepared to contest the alliance by accumulating armament, by leaving the U. S. so as to be away when the shooting began. Among this and other wild, vague reasons given for expecting a Diamond-Capone war the most credible was that the Midwest roadhouse beer trade...
...Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, Eric R. D. Maclagan, will deliver his third lecture, on "Andrea Pisano, Jacopo della Querica, and Ghiberti," at 8 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall, and following this address there will be music In the courtyard of the Fogg Museum by members of the Harvard Glee Club. The program which they will render at the informal concert at 9.15 o'clock will be the following: O Sacrum Convivium Viadana My Bonny Lass Morley Christmas Song Holst Bring a Torch Old Carol Morning Hymn Krug Der Gang zum Liebchen Brahms Les Anges dans...
...Giovanni Pisano was employed by Charles of Anjou on the Castel Nuovo at Naples, executed the Campo Santo at Pisa, and became architect of the new cathedral at Siena...
...marble pulpit for the Pisan baptistry is considered the finest work of Niccola Pisano, while the pulpit in Siena Cathedral is the most magnificent, though not the most beautiful, of his works...