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...means as eccentric as 'the St. Louis Cardinals, whose rowdy characteristics have earned them the nickname of "Gas House Gang," the Cubs have at least a half-dozen stars whose names will be household words after this week. Catcher Gabby Hartnett, their heaviest hitter is a huge, red-faced Irishman who has been with the Cubs since 1922. Lon Warneke a lanky, hay-pitching, coon-hunting 26-year-old from Arkansas, is the right-handed ace of the pitching staff (Warneke, French, Root, Lee), which rotated with rhythmic brilliance through their winning streak. At the start of the season...
Lonnie Thompson, the here, played by Frank Silvera, is a negro railroaded to jail by his employer on a trumped-up charge of raping a white girl. He escapes, and while in hiding leads a gang of negroes against a gang of whites who unofficially undertake to clean up the negro section with bricks and guns. (Scene: New Orleans). The negroes throw up a barricade of furniture and after much noise and violence, during which only the negro side of the barrier is visible to the audience, the defenders apparently are victorious...
Promptly recognized as the arm of a locally popular barfly named James Smith who had disappeared two weeks before, the undigested arm put Australian sleuths on their mettle. By last week they had reconstructed the "Shark Murder" about as follows: A drug-smuggling gang hired Smith to scuttle a yacht they had insured for $42,500 with Lloyd's. When Scuttler Smith later tried to blackmail the gang with threats of exposing them to Lloyd's, the gang had him dismembered and fed piece by piece to sharks in Sydney Harbor. Smith's tattooed arm was swallowed...
Major characteristic of the Cardinals' performance this year as last has been rowdy behavior, on & off the field. This has caused baseball writers to refer to them as ''the Gas House Gang," to compare them to the oldtime Baltimore Orioles, who could fight almost as ably as they could play. The famed Dean Brothers, after a bad start, last week seemed reasonably sure of winning the astonishing quota of 45 games which they set for themselves last spring. Jerome Herman ("Dizzy") Dean had won 23. Paul Dean...
...wrote Reporter McLean, three kinds of campers?"shell-shocked, whiskey-shocked, depression-shocked." About half were psychopaths. Most of their pay went to liquor dealers and moonshiners. "They're hell-raisers and do no good to anybody," said Charleston police. At Blaney some 15 veterans were on the chain gang. Kingstree citizens were worried by the campers' attentions to their "brass ankle women"?mongrel white-Negro-Indian wenches who hang about the Negro settlements. At Kingstree a score of drunken campers had just wrecked the entire second floor of the town jail. Women & children were staying off the streets...