Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Anthony Carfano. alias "Little Augie" Pisano, 61, started out as a two-bit bootlegger in the slums of his native Brooklyn, but he came up fast. By 1930 he had become Al Capone's East Coast viceroy, specialized in laundry, loan-shark and slot-machine rackets, as well as rumrunning. He knew every hood worth knowing, was also friendly with the late Mayor Jimmy Walker (in Prohibition days, Pisano saw to it that the Tammany Hall wigwams were plentifully supplied with needled beer and hijacked hooch). But there were nasty rumors that Augie was a finger...
...preparations for this week's celebration of the tenth anniversary of the Communist takeover in China. On the broad avenues of the capital, thousands of workers, wearing white kerchiefs on their heads, marched and countermarched in rehearsal for the big parade. All along the parade route, every bit of bare wall was decorated with portraits of Red China's leaders-Mao Tse-tung, Liu Shao-chi and Chou Enlai, in that order-and posters proclaiming that life is getting better and better in the people's paradise...
...Most Latin American Presidents have money," said Brazilian ex-President Joao Cafe Filho last week, his tone a bit wistful. "I did not have anything when I took office, and I had nothing when I left." Four years after he left the presidency, Cafe Filho (TIME, Cover, Dec. 6, 1954) still has nothing-or next to it. His poverty is so impressive that the legislature of his tiny, impoverished home state of Rio Grande do Norte last week voted him a pension of 40,000 cruzeiros ($240) a month for life...
...pass himself as a military surgeon, a psychology professor, a college dean, a cancer researcher, an assistant prison warden and a Trappist monk (TIME, June 29), acting seemed a logical career. But after a few days on the set of The Hypnotic Eye-Demara plays a doctor, plus eight bit parts-he decided that Hollywood was not for him. "The technical adviser hates me. And they are paying me peanuts. There is a huge power vacuum in this place. A smart guy could just walk in and take over." As for The Great Impostor, the movie that Universal International plans...
Richard Burton plays Jimmy perfectly straight, without the bitter elan and charm of Kenneth Haigh's stage performance. His approach to Jimmy's tirades is a bit too far on the heavy-breathing side for complete conviction, but he has a craggy, intense, remarkably expressive face. Mary Ure's Alison--a role which she created--is fragile, appealing, slightly vapid, and very, very blonde...