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...investigators, for instance, began harassing S & G bookies. A little later the S & G-which did a $26,500,000 business in 1948-lost its racing wire service. At this point, without explanation, the syndicate got a new partner, Harry Russell, an associate of Chicago's Capone gang. After that there was no more trouble...
...police put Dried Meat down as a petty racketeer and gang boss. They suspected that he protected the bicheiros, who run an illegal numbers game (TIME, June 12). Then one day a rival racketeer, Baiano by name, was cut down by gunfire. The police blamed Dried Meat, chased him for two months through the favelas. Finally the fugitive gave himself up, blithely explained: "Running up & down the hills is for goats, not people...
...judge ruled that it was impossible, in a gang war, to determine whose bullet killed whom. So Dried Meat beat the murder rap, but he got six months in jail for illegal possession of arms. He served three months, then escaped through a sewer. While the press played him up as "Inimigo Público Número Um," the police unleashed Rio's most spectacular manhunt...
...Asphalt Jungle (MGM) is an ambitious attempt by Director John (Treasure of Sierra Madre) Huston to explore a gang of criminals as human beings, while telling the tense story of an intricately planned $1,000,000 jewel burglary. The two-hour result falls somewhat short of the attempt. But thanks to brilliant direction and skillful work by Co-Scripters Huston and Ben Maddow in adapting a W. R. Burnett novel, it comes close enough to make the film well worth seeing...
Novel No. 51 on Author Grey's production line, The Maverick Queen, follows traditionally slim, traditionally grey-eyed Nebraska Cowboy Line Bradway on an errand of justice to South Pass, tangles him up with the lady leader ("the Maverick Queen") of a gang of cattle rustlers whom he suspects of his pard's murder. Ultimately it thrusts him into the arms of the queen's innocent niece ("blue eyes set wide apart, dark with excitement, red lips, sweet and tragic, a small bare head covered with golden curls"). Before Line and bride can turn "to face...