To a large room in "Section D 5" on the sixth floor of Cook County Jail on Chicago's west side went a Hearst reporter one day last week. He was older than most newshawks, grey-haired, baldish, dewlapped. Within the room he found, playing solitaire at a table, "Scarface Al" Capone. For about an hour reporter and prisoner talked together.
It was not extraordinary that Capone should have been interviewed in his cell. But next day Hearstpapers everywhere splashed the interview over four columns, in some...
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