Hearst's raucous Chicago Herald-American would love to revive the dear, noisy days of the Front Page era, if only it could remember how. Last week it made a loud try.
It started when two Chicago policemen, sad-faced Captain Thomas Connelly and natty Lieut. William Drury, were suspended from the force. Their superiors suspected them of being too gentle with gamblers. To Chicago's frenetic Hearstlings* this looked like an opportunity too good to be missed. The Herald-American forced a few crocodile tears down its face, and did its best to make martyred heroes of Connelly and Drury. Then it hired them as reporters....
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