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Until Díaz came along, hardly a night passed in the rollicking, jazzy, bawdy barrio without a drunken fight, a shooting or a knifing. Under the conniving eyes of well-bribed cops, numbers-game runners and dope peddlers did a rich trade. From the doorways, women of all shades hawked their wares to a passing throng of awed countrymen, city slickers, roistering sailors and bottle-brave tourists...
...forging checks. The money was used, cried the defendant's lawyer, to buy things for Miss Bankhead-"Cocaine, marijuana, liquor, booze, whisky, champagne and sex." Retorted outraged lava-voiced Tallulah: "Of course I drink. But nobody has to kite checks to pay for my liquor." As for dope: "Even if I had been getting it-which I certainly wasn't-do you think I'd have been paying for it by check?" But what made Actress Bankhead angriest was the mention of sex. Rumbled she: "God knows I never have...
Into Tampa, Fla. last week swept the Senate's Kefauver committee on interstate crime. The committee was not there to take Tampa's winter sun; it was in Florida to investigate reports that Tampa was the center of a crime syndicate that ran a dope-smuggling ring and a lottery with a take of $20 million a year. For the Tampa Tribune (circ. 101,051), the committee's arrival was a fine acknowledgment of the paper's three-year-old crusade against Florida crime. In the course of its campaign, the Tribune had toppled four state...
...Golden Caravan. But there was still one possibility. Many of India's first-rate newsmen rushed to the frontier city of Kalimpong in the hope of getting inside dope from a seven-man Tibetan delegation stranded there on its way to Peking for negotiations with the Chinese Reds. The delegation proved inscrutable, uncommunicative and apparently as uninformed as the newsmen themselves. But from Kalimpong the correspondents began wiring dispatches full of details of battle, and placing the invaders everywhere from 250 miles to 50 miles from Lhasa...
...with war brewing, Newshound Kaltenborn was sniffing out inside dope for U.S. radio listeners. Says he happily: "The intensity with which America listened to the radio reports of the Munich crisis was without parallel." In London after Munich, U.S. Ambassador to Britain Joseph P. Kennedy told him a secret: ' 'You have come to me in one of the most important moments in world history! We are engaged in a fight for time...