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...their usual methods, Chicago gangsters had tried to make everybody else equally untalkative. Their arsonists burned one restaurant whose owner was seen with committee investigators (TIME, May 26); other hoods threatened other prospective witnesses by visit and telephone. But silver-haired Donald Strang, for one, would not be terrified. Strang, 56, turned up to tell what happened when a mob-run local of the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s Hotel and Restaurant Employees and Bartenders International Union staked professional pickets around his Howard Johnson restaurant at suburban Niles (pop. 15,000) in 1952. Items...
...Dump keepers in the area, somehow warned, refused to accept the garbage when Strang bought a trailer to haul it away himself...
ONLY FADE AWAY, by Bruce Marshall (303 pp.; Houghton Mifflin; $3.50), shows how an Episcopal Scotsman can hopscotch his engaging way through a comic novel as if he were the hero of a minor Greek tragedy. The hero is Strang Nairne Methuen. As a young lieutenant, he is full of wide-eyed piety, but a shapely dish can stir up his belief in "tart for tart's sake." As a brigadier, he wears a monocle, but is intelligent enough to look at the world with both eyes open. His nemesis takes the repulsive form of Claude Hermiston, a bully...
...Claremont Terminal was considered so juicy a prize after the Army took it over in the summer of 1951 that an underworld war was fought for rights to steal from it. (The Army abandoned the pier in disgust less than six months later.) A former longshoreman named Charles Strang testified how one Walter ("Wally the Shark") Marcinski boasted of having Mayor Kenny's "O.K." on the Claremont piers. Wally, said Strang. stole cases of tools from Army tanks. "They stole so much Army equipment that every longshoreman looked more like the Army than the Army itself...
...picture above, the hero (TED CRON '52) leaves Widener with Susan (DARE TAYLOR '53) on his right, and extra ANNE STRANG '53, on his left. His roommate (SAM TIMMONS '51) looks on with disgust. The scene isn't from the picture...