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...Brooklyn so that he could hustle up to New Rochelle, N.Y. and tend his flower garden. "No you don't, Frisch," said the umpire he was sassing. "Get back on the bench and go home with the rest of us." When Frisch was running the celebrated Gashouse Gang in St. Louis, Dizzy Dean used to needle him "just to hear that Dutchman roar." Last week, the Dutchman got a new job that would tax his ingenuity and vocal cords...
Chicago's cops got nowhere in their hunt for the killers. Fortnight ago, a letter with a jagged edge was mailed to the Sun-Times. The letter told where to find the gang which had murdered old man Engelhard. Editor Finnegan had the tip checked enough to convince him that it was the jackpot, and hustled it over to the police. Last week detectives arrested four members of a South Side gang, who confessed. Boasted the Sun-Times on Page One: SOMEBODY KNEW...
After a few years he gave up his teaching, shipped to Canada and began to pick up jobs in work gangs. With one gang, in 1911, he illegally entered the U.S. He worked on railroads, on farms, in brickyards, in steel mills. For a while he taught French in Chicago. And everywhere he went, he studied-Jesuit Educator Wilfrid Parsons once called him "the best-read man I have ever...
...staff presented the boss with a ten-foot bull whip and a wristwatch. As he took them, tears rolled down the grizzled cheeks of hard-boiled Jack Campbell. Before long, more than tears was flowing: friends had sent over a supply of liquor. By the time the gang got through a fancy buffet lunch (courtesy of the Southern Pacific), a woman sword swallower had dropped in from a circus to swallow three swords, and Mayor Fletcher Bowron had read a proclamation making Campbell "mayor of the day." The Chamber of Commerce sent a chamber pot as a good-natured...
City Across the River (Universal-International), based on Irving Shulman's novel, The Amboy Dukes, and solemnly introduced by Drew Pearson, is another slum drama with a social message. It tells the story of a Brooklyn kid (Peter Fernandez) who joins a tough street gang (the "Dukes") and quickly goes wrong...