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FIFTH--$3600, claiming ($4500-3500), 1 and 1/16 miles on turf...
...weakest individual is the most brutalized. He is Nemecsek (Anthony Kemp), the smallest and most sensitive of the Paul Street boys, who would sacrifice anything-including his life-to gain the recognition of his classmates. His chance soon comes. Already snuffling with a severe cold, Nemecsek ventures onto the turf of the dreaded Red Shirts, gets caught and thrown into a lake. He contracts a fatal illness; burning with fever, he helps the Paul Street boys to victory, then is taken home to die. A week later the disputed ground itself is sentenced to death as the site...
...CRIMSON and the Yearbook have been engaged in something very close to civil war for the last month. The problem is the CRIMSON Photo Annual, a one-dollar paper-back released a couple of weeks ago, which the Yearbook people seem to see as an invasion of their turf. I'm a partisan in this fracas. If an inexpensive collection of pictures by CRIMSON photographers can substitute for the Yearbook's $11.95 package of nostalgia, then I am happy to see capitalism run its course. If the Yearbook really is an anachronism, cartels to save it make about as much...
...Williams (Nathan George), a black pimp who is as cold and dangerous as a switchblade. His whores saunter in and out between tricks, and the white one loves him. Johnny wants to challenge the Mafia, which is crimping his style, by assembling a "Black Mafia" to rule his own turf. An ex-con father figure who has gone straight (Walter Jones) warns Johnny that he has contracted "Charley fever" -that is, trying to beat the white man at his own game. The fever inevitably proves fatal, and finally the stage is as loaded with corpses as the bloodiest Elizabethan tragedy...
...other writers were persuaded to get off Mr. Davis' literary turf. The publishers were only too glad to let him run on for 424 pages, including three genealogical tables and 19 pages of bibliographical notes-as though the Bouviers were either highly significant or vastly entertaining...