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...carrying a walkie-talkie to get word from a lookout -slithered into Rose's Sandwich Shop on the hairy, scary West Side. "Up against the wall!" they ordered the eight people inside. One of the gunmen then shoved a twelve-gauge shotgun under the chin of Richard Cain, 49. The hit man fired two blasts, blowing away Cain's handsome face. The killers quickly fled, accompanied by what witnesses later said was a mysterious "woman in blue...
Thus ended Cain's remarkable double-dealing life as a policeman and mobster. Cain was a Chicago detective in the 1950s, and later became chief investigator in the Cook County sheriffs office. In the mid-1960s he was dismissed from the sheriffs office for concocting a phony drug raid, and he became the chief operative of Chicago Mafia Overlord Momo Salvatore (Sam) Giancana. In 1966 Giancana left Chicago for Mexico to avoid federal heat and counseled the Chicago syndicate from his exile; Cain was a trusted aide...
...Cain, the line between the law and the lawless had always been fuzzy. Born in a tough neighborhood not far from where he died, the street-wise Cain left school after eighth grade, but did a good job of self-education. He learned five languages, mastered many of the techniques of eavesdropping and once studied law books for several months. When he later faced conspiracy and other charges, he creditably defended himself in court. Handsome and spectacled, Cain was polite, well read and intelligent. At the same time, he had a hedonist's love of flashy clothes...
...omniscient voice intoning a "begat" section of the Bible, while shadows file on and off the stage leaving it a clutter of history. Eve is there knitting, lines of childbirth drawn onto her face, placid as her husband digs in the dirt beside her. A brash and warlike Cain returns, brandishing a spear, and in the mother son exchange that follows Dean throws so much of herself into the part, quivers with so much wise fire, that the most devastating line in the play by contrast is spoken simply and softly, unacted: "All you men, except only Adam...
...chairs down theater aisles to feed a stage fire and save the suburb of Excelsior, N.J., from the ice age. He successfully launched Noah's ark from the Million Dollar Pier in Atlantic City-despite the fact that Mrs. Noah wouldn't let it shove off without Cain as well as Abel. Novelist Thornton Wilder has re-created 18th century Peru (The Bridge of San Luis Rey), and ancient Rome (The Cabala). In Our Town, he made Grover's Corners, N.H., into some sort of Eternal City of the heart. After all that, it is not much...