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...pictures made from it for some time you will be surprised to find that The Virginian would be a typical western except that it is less energetic and far better bred than most westerns-a nice library arrangement of the earnest hero, the fragile heroine, the cattle-rustling, halfbreed badman. Around these puppets the beautiful photography is like a shell on whose glazed surface you can see reflected the arch of a great horizon and which, pressed to your ear, records the rustle of the air's phantom oceans over the prairie land, sounds of rivers, birds, hoofs. Best...
...underworld calls Badman Burke "professor." He is a scientific felon, a specialist in safe door melting, wire tapping, hijacking, disguises. In his St. Joseph hideout were found chemistry and metallurgy textbooks, also 200 thumb-greyed detective novels, with criminals' blunders underlined...
...news it can find or rehash, throws an edition into print and out upon the streets ahead of competitors, that edition is a "bulldog" edition. Chicago's Herald & Examiner ("Herex") publishes a "bulldog" edition on Sunday afternoons. Last week this edition carried a story about one Rocco Maggio, badman. "Herex" said Maggio would stand trial next day on a statutory (sex) offense against a 14-year-old girl whom he had since married...
Confused and annoyed was "Herex" to learn next day that should dangerous Badman Maggio return to Sicily, it would be in a horizontal position. He had been murdered two months before. "Herex" itself had played up his death story...
Police hinted that Badman Nannery did outside jobs for the plotters. Perhaps he had tried...