Word: caine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Well known to the police of London's East End is 25-year-old Costerboy John Thomas Cain. Often enough they have had him up for piddling misdemeanors, blocking traffic with his barrow, chucking unsold vegetables about at the day's end. Last week, however, the Metropolitan Police would have looked the other way if he had overturned his barrow in Piccadilly Circus. For John Thomas Cain was sporting one of the highest awards for gallantry that his country can give a civilian, the George Medal. He is, so far, the youngest Briton to wear...
John Thomas Cain has three hobbies: snooker pool, beer drinking and rescuing bombees (score to date: twelve single-handed rescues, 44 assists). Playing pool one night, John heard the crash of a bomb, looking out of the billiard parlor saw a paint factory down the street go up in a stinking inferno of flames and fumes. With four policemen John dug into the basement, slithered through a four-foot flood of paint, dodged arcing electric wires. On doors they hauled ten workmen into the street, six alive. As they were carrying the last one away the building shuddered and fell...
...Harvard version of Cain and Able will take place tonight if the brothers Gardiner, Tudor and Tom, manage, to battle their way to the finals in the heavyweight division of the University boxing tournament. The 18 bouts, scheduled for 7:45 o'clock in the Indoor. Athletic Building, will wind up the tournament which began yesterday with 13 preliminary bouts in six classes...
...Samarra) could polish off the script. But though characters in O'Hara novels sometimes refer to each other as "Fitzgerald characters," O'Hara is more a Hemingway derivative, belongs less among the sad young men than with U. S. Literature's dead-end kids : James M. Cain ( The Postman Always Rings Twice), Horace McCoy (They Shoot Horses, Don't They?), pseudonymous Richard Hallas (real name Eric Knight...
Back from Cain's warehouse this week, just 17 months since its run ended, came Stage with a new cast, new sets, new management. President of the company is a rich Manhattan socialite, William Rhinelander Stewart. Publisher is a shrewd, energetic Hungarian editor and impresario, Alexander Ince. Managing editor: Alexander King, onetime drama critic, illustrator, onetime member of LIFE'S staff...