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...cop is standing at the cigarette counter, pointing to a program in the winner's hand...
When he was arrested in September 1950, Brooklyn's swart, smart Big Bookie Harry Gross lost a gambling empire but gained a fearsome and ironic political power. He used it for all it was worth. By talking his head off before a grand jury about cop-bribing during Mayor Bill O'Dwyer's regime, he exploded the biggest New York corruption scandal since the days of Jimmie Walker. Then, after a total of 77 blue-coats had been named as defendants or coconspirators, Gross managed, with consummate gall, to spring them...
...student merely tried to cross the street," Ira Levy '54 said. "A cop came up to him and said 'get going." He said 'I am, I am,' and tried to get away. The policeman started to push him and then dragged him toward the Waldorf Cafeteria and the cruisers...
...into it as if it were hell bent for the vaults of the Harvard Trust Company. They insulted women and bashed undergraduates and ripped out camera films and told proctors to "go back where you come from." It was a good chance to throw around a little weight. One cop summed it up pretty well: "We knew they were cutting up a little, so we came down to break...
There probably won't be crowds in the Square for a while now. In that, the cops may have done part of what they set out to do. But there is still a month to June, then summer, and past that the football games. Some day the crowds are going to come swelling up from the river towards the Square again, and the sirens will run wailing out from Central Square to greet them. A drunk will push a cop, maybe fuzzily remembering last night, and the cop will push him back. And then maybe the billy-swinging cops will...