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...whole, the stellar performance of these banditti merits the attention of football coaches throughout the country who are interested in building an offense based on deception. With one of the artful dodgers in the backfield, the hidden ball trick would sweep the country again...

Author: By Joseph P. Lyford, | Title: What's His Number? | 10/24/1939 | See Source »

Adapted from I. A. R. Wylie's Saturday Evening Post serial, The Gay Banditti, The Young in Heart never permits its audience much doubt about how the lion & lamb relationship of its major characters will eventually resolve itself. However, if it has often been told before, the story has rarely been told better. Richard Wallace's direction, Paul Osborn's screen play, Franz Waxman's score and the acting of precisely the right cast combine to make it the wittiest and most civilized cinema comedy of the year. Good sequence: Colonel Carleton and his son, whose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 14, 1938 | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

Vaguely Chicago had realized that it was a longstanding practice among the local banditti to terrorize witnesses used against them by prosecutors. But citizens were aghast at this public admission of and surrender to the fact. A few days later Gangster McGeoghegan, born in Chicago's criminal spawning grounds "Back of the Yards," was reindicted. Witness Bere, promised a police escort, told a grand jury that he would again appear for the prosecution. Next job was up to Chicago's detectives : find Daniel McGeoghegan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Chicago Surrender | 7/4/1932 | See Source »

...strange as the sight of a member of the Union League club demonstrating a tap-dance were these lines in the august New York Times fortnight ago: "Five planes brought dozens of machine gats from Chicago Friday to combat The Town's Capone. . . . Local banditti have made one hotel a virtual arsenal and several hotspots are ditto because Master Coll is giving them the headache. One of the better Robin Hoods has a private phone in his cell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Graphic-to-Mirror-to-News? | 2/29/1932 | See Source »

...think, O blue eyed banditti...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 18, 1931 | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

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