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Suddenly last week the silence and serenity were rent by a voice not heard in New York since it was stilled by the death of the 72nd Congress last March. Short, swart, muscular Fiorello Henry La Guardia, insurgent Republican from Manhattan's Italian district who lost his House seat to a Tammany man in the Roosevelt landslide, raised his voice loudly to demand public support for one of the most startling coalition tickets ever proposed...
...Attorney George Zerdin Medalie, short, swart, pince-nezed, portly, open and benevolent in manner; at the prosecutor's table...
...Swart little Angelo Trulio started to play one-wall handball five years ago. He was so good that he took up the harder four-wall game, beat Alfred Banuet for the national championship last year. Last week little Trulio was favored to keep his title in a cream-colored court of the Lake Shore Athletic Club in Chicago. His surprise came in the semifinals, against Albert Charles ("Hobey") Hobelmann of Baltimore, a player who had lost in the national semi-finals for the last six years. They made a preposterous contrast in the court-Trulio with the well-muscled physique...
...years. Graduate of no university, at 20 he was a dentist, then studied medicine, now teaches physiology at the University of Cincinnati. Three visits to Japan resulted in his biography of the late great Hideyo Noguchi; his laboratory pets gave him the material for Lives (TIME, May 2, 1932). Swart, tousle-headed, he says: "I am not much to look at. ... I am an authority on the cockroach. I know considerable about the Japanese. I play Beethoven constantly and abominably. . . . You can find me in my laboratory from ten any morning till two the next, and every Sunday, and every...
...Louderback could thank Senator Samuel Shortridge of California for the Federal judgeship President Coolidge handed him in 1928. Samuel Shortridge Jr., son of the Republican Senator, thanked Judge Louderback for the fat receivership fees he was handed in his court. Last week the House thanked New York's swart little La Guardia, watchdog of the U. S. Judiciary, for digging up evidence that resulted in Judge Louderback's impeachment...