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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nearest New York counterpart to what the Chicago newspapers have made of ("Scarface") Al Capone, is the New York newspapers' slim, pasty-faced Jack ("Legs") Diamond, gangster, gunman and bootlegger. For years immune from the New York City police (arrested 22 times, convicted twice), Diamond found the city too warm for him only after some acquaintances shot five holes in him at his hotel last autumn (TIME, Oct. 20). When he emerged from a city hospital, the city police escorted him and a case of whiskey out of town. Just as Capone has a suburban stronghold at Cicero, Ill., Diamond...
During the past, the deficiencies of the advisers have been numerous. Besides seeing advisees once or twice during the year to sign study cards, the majority of the men have merely asked their Freshmen out to dinner once, for which duty they were paid by the University; some have even neglected that. In many cases, out of contact with first year problems, they have been scarcely qualified to give up-to-date advice on concentration, distribution, and particular courses...
...debating is give and take. The speakers should bring up a point, toss it back and forth, crush it between two fires, restore it to life, balance it against another factor, and present it to their audience in fresh relationships. To facilitate this contact each speaker formerly spoke twice. Now rarely more than one speaker to a side speaks for the second time, and the non-memorized part of his rebuttal is cut to two or three poor minutes. The memorized speech, because it does not lend itself to an effective exchange of arguments, has taken the heart, or rather...
Successor is his grandson, Young Pete, a dark checker pigeon. Twice has Young Pete beaten a field of 3,200 pigeons in races from Washington...
...when his operetta Lucille was given a recent amateur performance (no better, no worse than average) by St. John's students, the tunes were such hits that the first-night audience stayed applauding for 15 minutes after the final curtain. Last week it was decided to repeat Lucille, twice in Brooklyn (April 24 and 25), once in Germantown, Pa. (May 13) where Professor Walsh used to live; once in Atlantic City...