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...joint in town and earn himself $10 a night. He couldn't read music very well, but he could climb all over the piano with a solid, hard-riffing style that earned him a lot of respect from people like Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman and others of "the mob...
...Spouting Source. This year, having failed to get his job back through the courts, Bill Drury got sore and began spouting what he knew. He fed information on the Capone mob to columnists and expose writers and he offered his services when Senator Estes Kefauver's special Senate committee began investigating organized crime. Drury arranged to meet a Kefauver investigator early this month to prepare the way for the committee's full-dress entry into Chicago. Word got around that Drury was also getting ready to channel embarrassing information about Police Captain Daniel A. ("Tubbo") Gilbert, the Democratic...
After weeks of careful preparations, the Reds organized a strike of workers in eastern Austria's Russian-operated factories to protest against the government measure. Red army tanks blocked railways leading to the city. A mob of 10,000 gathered at the Ballhausplatz, seat of Austria's chancellory. Western soldiers were beaten up. Despite their small following (5% of the voters), the Communists found sympathizers among other workers who were bitter about the price boosts. Not even the Viennese police were notably enthusiastic in trying to quell the riots...
...Spear Carrier." Thus the new Merry-Go-Round brushes Harry Truman off as little more than "a spear carrier from the mob scene," and deplores his "government by crony." Yet the G.O.P., say Allen & Shannon, is worse-a "Dark Age Brigade" full of "Piltdown men" and "mental Charley horses" with "intellectual constipation, verbal diarrhea and varicose egotism...
...Lawless. A lowbudget, high-voltage treatment of mob violence in a small U.S. town; with Macdonald Carey and ail Russell (TIME, July...