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After that Parisi was transferred from a jail in Brooklyn to jail in The Bronx, waiting to be tried for killing Irving Penn. But it looked very much as though he might beat the rap again. One thing was certain: Jack would not talk. The law, by cleaning up the old charges, seemed only to be helping Parisi get back into circulation-and in his business, there were always job openings for close-mouthed...
Faye is prepared to talk about anything on TV "as long as it's not too heavy," and she has imposed only a slight self-censorship: "The things I don't touch are people's personal lives. And I never rap people or anything, because I don't think I'm in a position...
...breaking young lovers of They Live by Night, to the hazards of crime. This time Granger, a part-time letter carrier, tries to steal $200 in a weak moment. The haul turns out to be an embarrassing $30,000 in blackmail money, and somebody else's murder rap. While wife Cathy sticks loyally by, Granger steers an increasingly dangerous course between police and murderer...
...Goober" Cox counted on plenty of company: his fellow Dixiecrats, who wanted to bottle up Harry Truman's civil rights program ; Republicans who wanted to smother the Fair Deal; everyone who wanted to whack Government spending without having to take the rap for voting against popular expenditures...
...Barber") Factor, won a $15,000 settlement in his $500,000 libel suit against 20th Century-Fox for its movie, Roger Touhy, Gangster. Roger charged that the film had maligned him grossly. He planned to use the $15,000 in his "fight for freedom," i.e., to beat the kidnaping rap, plus a concurrent 199-year sentence for his role in a 1942 jailbreak...