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...short pants, James E. Glynn used to shunt wooden blocks across the kitchen floor and make believe he was turning the big wheels of commerce. But when he had to go to work right after grammar school as an extra hand on the New York Central Railroad, he began to feel that his dream would never come true; a guy could never be a big-shot transportation executive without a college degree...
Tough little Willie Bioff, big-shot labor racketeer, was testifying. "We had about 20 percent of Hollywood when we got in trouble. If we hadn't got loused up we'd of had 50 percent. I had Hollywood dancin' to my tune." Willie's compelling tune was extortion; the insistent drumbeat in the background was the threat of physical violence. Studio employees and motion-picture-machine operators joined his labor union-or else. Hollywood studio czars chipped in millions to stop the music -and keep their studios running. What finally "loused up" Willie was a big...
Born Yesterday. Amusing farce about a big-shot racketeer and his dumb blonde (TIME...
Tenting Tonight (by Frank Gould; produced by Saul Fischbein) is one of those harmless, agitated, anxious-to-please little comedies that loom big only in their blundering. It concerns a bunch of former G.I.s who can't get into a jerkwater college because they cannot find a place to live. They high-pressure a kindly prof into letting them make a flophouse of his living room; but a big-shot trustee gets mad at the idea. Then they soft-soap a racketeer into turning a building he has leased into a dormitory instead of a dive. But the trustee...
Born Yesterday. Amusing yarn about a big-shot racketeer who decides to have his dumb blonde educated and picks too good a teacher (TIME...