Press: Crosby v. Capone

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Hearst Colyumist Arthur Brisbane soon gave his interpretation to "People Who Think." "A few years ago such a positive announcement would have been impossible. . . . But now, the X-ray looks through intervening tissue and reveals two little skeletons, with cunning, crooked legs, tiny little hands that will never know hard work, and there is no doubt about its being twins. . .

Chicago Change

Quiet, colorless, eminently righteous is the Chicago Evening Post. It boasts the best financial, society and art pages in Chicago but is conservative to the point of impotence in local controversies. Last week bald, tight-lipped John Charles Shaffer, 77, publisher of the Post for 30 years and of the Indiana Star group, let the Post go into receivership, apparently to become a mouthpiece for loud-yawping Mayor William Hale Thompson. The Post had lost money consistently, recently as much as $75,000 a year. Receivers were George Fulmer Getz, millionaire coal dealer, and his partner Charles Fitzmorris, onetime police chief, onetime secretary to Mayor Thompson.