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Small World. In New York City, Samuel Grove, 26, discovered to his chagrin that the Harlem poolroom operator to whom he tried to sell two suitcasefuls of clothing was the tenant of the Bronx apartment from which he had stolen the clothing several hours before...
...courtroom was quiet. After a while, he went on: "Look, Your Honor, it's not us kids. It's the neighborhood. We ain't got no place to go. Do you want us to stay home seven nights a week? Look, we go into a poolroom or something, and the cops break in on us . . . We got no place...
Even tiny Redwater, with a population increase from 150 to 1,500 in ten months, has become a place where a man can spend some of his money. It has six new restaurants, a poolroom and bowling alley, three movie theaters. It also has a spanking-new hotel and beer parlor, where business is so good the waiters refuse to serve less than two beers at a time to a customer. Near Leduc, Imperial has bought a 160-acre field and built a village for 900 families...
...wife, Sentoria, heard about it and came rushing down to take him home. But she couldn't keep him there-Jim strolled back to the poolroom for a while, then sauntered over to the Busy Bee for a cup of coffee. That was when the cops came. They hauled Jim to Waukegan jail and started talking. "All right, you black son-ofabitch, tell the truth," demanded one. "We know you done...
...played by Thelma Ritter and Luis Van Rooten); the dank, underground goings-on in the Dukes' basement club; the bits & pieces of broken-down humanity that cluster like flies around Selma's sidewalk soda stand. Especially good are the close-up studies of gratuitous violence: in the poolroom the Dukes brutally beat up a couple of outsiders; in the school manual training class the kids (armed with the crude guns they have been secretly making at their work benches) defy, bully and finally terrorize their teacher...