Word: gangsters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last spring a Denver bartender named Lloyd ("Red") Barker was shot and killed by his wife. Local newspapers first carried it as a routine homicide, then speculated that the victim might be the last of the four notorious Barker brothers who, with their gangster mother, terrorized the Midwest in the '30s. Barren Beshoar, chief of our Denver news bureau, set out to find...
...Hoover could say that the day of the gangster was over. His G-men were the new popular heroes, immortalized ever since on the screen and on the air, and on a thousand box tops, bearing the morning cereal to American boys. The pursuers, not the pursued, had become the object of hero worshipers' affections...
Witch Hunt? Sometimes, caught up as he is now in the pursuit of private beliefs, and the difficult measurements of loyalty, G-man Hoover looks like a man who longs for the simple combat of gangster days, when a criminal could sometimes be flushed out into the open and caught with a gun in his hand, instead of a lie on his tongue. But, conscientious cop and efficient public servant that he is, J. Edgar Hoover regards his new mission, and the attacks he receives because of it, as part of his job. He knows that he cannot afford...
History has recorded how Cesare tossed away his cardinal's hat, put himself at the head of a gang of mercenaries, and went to work on the new job of making himself the toughest gangster in Renaissance Italy. Cesare had such a flair for disposing of his enemies without leaving awkward evidence around that historians have never been able to agree on the subtler details of his career. Did he bully and terrify his own father half to death? Was he guilty of incest with his beautiful sister Lucrezia? Did he murder his elder brother? Did he really earn...
With sweet smiles and cold determination, the sisters move in on and eventually take possession of the converted-stable studio of a dithery painter (Elsa Lan-chester). They also wheedle the deed to a valuable piece of real estate from a notorious gangster (Thomas Gomez), and almost drive a songwriting neighbor (Hugh Marlowe) out of his mind before he capitulates. In their childlike faith, they brush aside every staggering obstacle in their path. When things look really tough, they say a prayer to St. Jude, patron of the impossible...