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Each day the Binh Xuyen (pronounced bin soo yen) pays the Vietnamese government about $10,000 in "taxes," and gets in return the monopoly control of Saigon's brothels, gambling casinos and opium dens (which are called "clinics of disintoxication"). The Binh Xuyen's enterprises are one of...
In his thirteen years on the Cambridge police force, Trodden was so clean even the racketeers respected him. Last year, he was active in exposing and defeating one of the grimier of the State's politicos, former Attorney General Frank Kelly. For this, Trodden was made chief of the criminal...
That did it. The old lions of the movie industry-Nick and Joe Schenck, the Skourases, the Warners, the Cohns, Freeman and Zukor-came roaring out of their dens, heads up, alertly sniffing the trade winds.
In Manhattan the word went out among the live-wire jive set: hear Brubeck. At 31, Dave Brubeck of lone, Calif, is best known on the West Coast, but his piano playing has begun to get around. To his admirers, it is not only a brand-new style, it is...
When spindly Ken Dixon became managing editor of the daily Lake Charles, La. American Press 2½ years ago, the gambling dens of Lake Charles (pop. 41,202) were thriving as mightily as its mushrooming oil and chemical plants. Far into the night, the slot machines clanked and roulette wheels...