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...twenties and thirties saw the scandalously corrupt reign of cement baron and political boss Tom Pendergast, when Kansas City thrived on a depression economy of gambling, prostitution, and bootleg booze. Ricker establishes early on the pointlessness of trying to recapture that milieu: Big Joe Turner sings "I was standing on the corner of 18th and Vine," and he shows us the barren parking lot that now occupies this intersection, once crowded with nightspots. He succeeds in capturing the unique camraderie that still exists among the men who made the Kansas City sound nearly 50 years...
...lead the parties toward a compromise. Says Mediator Lamont Montigue, a cook: "You don't settle the situation. You let the agreement come from them." When it does, the former opponents sign a written settlement. All other records are destroyed, on the theory that confidentiality will help cement the deal...
What sphinx of cement and aluminum bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imaginations? Moloch! Moloch! Nightmare of Moloch! Moloch the loveless! Mental Moloch! Moloch the heavy judger...
...school, the personalities are as memorable as Coll's. Dean Yarborough, the principal of the school and a black activist of the Martin Luther King years, teaches trumpet lessons in the afternoon; Father Jim, the cigar smoking priest, spends time fixing cement foundations; and the children all seemingly eager to latch on to a tutor...
...sent Correspondent Ilya Shatunovsky to see the miracle in action. What he actually found was a dilapidated fence guarded by an elderly watchman armed with an antique rifle. Peering through holes in the fence, Shatunovsky glimpsed a wasteland: "Some bare scaffolding standing amid broken bricks and lumps of dry cement." Where was the factory? The answer: there wasn...