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Just as he assumes the "Register" gleefully wants to embarrass rather that to inform, Mr. Morrison implies that students in a classroom are not primarily concerned with learning; instead they face their instructors maliciously, much like a mob that needs skillful handling...
...leader, however, needs "apostles -men whose aim will be to make [his] doctrine heartfelt by the mob ... A hundred sheep led by a lion are worth more than a hundred lions led by a sheep...
...colony demanding Home Rule. There were riots over cocoa prices, and one February day in 1948, a band of Gold Coast veterans of World War II marched on the British governor's palace. In the street fighting that followed, police shot two Africans, wounded many more; a berserk mob looted every store in sight, and 29 people were killed...
...Well, Keeler knew where one of the men lived. That's Sonny Campbell. [So] one morning we stuck him up, and we wanted to know where the furs were. [But] the man didn't know." Campbell, it turned out, had already tipped off the Jersey waterfront mob under "Charlie the Jew" Yanowski (since ice-picked to death), and Charlie had highjacked the furs from the original highjackers. Despite their prior claim, Smith & Co. formally agreed to let the Jersey mob keep the boodle. Meanwhile, Campbell's pals, unaware that he had double-crossed them...
Miss Hayes and Mr. Munshin run the show when they're on. Both are masters of the aside, and both use it to good advantage throughout. Munshin tends to overdo his swagger and his wheeze sometimes, but is otherwise a thoroughly enjoyable character as the leader of a "mob." His two mobsters, played by Everett Chambers and Guy Raymond, are stock caricatures. (Raymond's part, incidentally, is that taken on Broadway by Fred Gwynne '51, who performed on the local scene a couple of years...