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...this courtroom fiasco went back ten years to a spot on Brooklyn's Church Avenue. Gross, then a rookie bookie, was furtively taking a bet off a customer when a plainclothes policeman came up. "You're a sucker for cheating this way," said the cop. Cheating, Gross found, meant breaking the law without paying off the cops. He stopped cheating, and by 1950 was the "Mr. G." of Brooklyn gambling, operating 35 places with 400 employees, handling $20 million a year, handing out $1 million a year to police for protection...
...Lahr & Mercedes." In the years after World War I-in which he served as a Navy enlisted man-all this paid off. He invented a noisy, red-nosed cop ("Go ahead and call the captain-he's drunker than I am") and hit big-time vaudeville in one jump. His first wife, a beautiful ex-burlesque soubrette named Mercedes Delpino, was his straight woman. LAHR AND MERCEDES, read big newspaper ads, A RIOT OF MIRTH AND IRRESISTIBLE COMEDY. He bought a Packard car and tailored suits, and dreamed of Broadway. "Bert," said the Broadway wise guys...
...street. Lahr was a smash. Lahr was a sensation. NEW COMEDY KING CROWNED, read a Journal headline. Hold Everything ran for 413 performances. Suddenly the headwaiters, the cabbies, the reporters, the speakeasy bartenders all knew Bert Lahr. He played the Palace three times in six months with his old cop act at $4,500 a week. One hit followed another: Flying High, Hot-Cha!, Life Begins at 8:40, George White's Scandals, The Show...
...cop was about to return the identity papers with an apology when he noticed that Branquez's birth date, Aug. 2, 1909, made him out to be much older than he looked. At the station house, Branquez's fingerprints were taken. Within two hours the French criminal police identified them as belonging to one Germain Lantier, a Frenchman who had deserted to the Germans in World War II, had risen to be a lieutenant in the Gestapo. Arrested at war's end, Lantier had escaped from a military hospital, been condemned to death in absentia...
...Strongest Man? The Wafd has the most efficiently corrupt political organization in the country. At the last elections, policemen handed out ballots to the illiterate fellahin and showed them where to make their marks (in that way one cop boasted he had cast 5,000 straight votes for the Wafd). The party made numerous campaign promises of social reform, has carried out virtually none of them; the one way in which it hopes to keep its popularity and make the people forget about their discontent is to whip up anti-British feeling...