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...first jobs was to clean up skinny, bullet-pocked Legs Diamond's gang. His record since has been both unspectacular and unmarred by scandal. As a public official he is colorless, likable, efficient. He has earned the loyalties of friends; smart and ambitious (for six years he has yearned to be Governor), he has visited every city and hamlet in the State during his five campaigns, probably knows more voters than anyone but his gregarious mentor, Jim Farley himself...
Before that, the gay Mountbattens were accounted among "the palace gang" of blooded, moneyed youngsters who kept Queen Mary in a continuous state of alarm...
...columnists before Congressional committees, of ramming through libel laws to shake the press's teeth, of getting radio time to take their case to the people. Isolationists, whose pre-Pearl Harbor record has frequently been thrown back at them, cried for an investigation of an alleged "smear" gang said to be behind...
...studio where the slow evolution of a character sometimes starts with nothing more than a noise, and never stops until every possibility of color, curve, sound and dialogue has been considered. Professor Feild prints for the first time in book form many records of conferences in the Disney-gang. One caught this critical moment in the prenatal life of Jiminy Cricket...
Lost in the dust of this hurrying traffic are Juke Girl Ann Sheridan and her profession. Instead of working at it, she has to spend most of her time avoiding Richard Whorf, who runs with the labor-bait-ing packinghouse gang, and patching up Ronald Reagan, who likes the pickers. In a rather dull game of social significance and truck theft, the pickers beat the packers...