Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week the snickers-and the horse play-abruptly stopped. On orders from Romney, A.M.C. Milwaukee officials fired a supervisor for being drunk on the job and suspended four other workers for buying and selling liquor in the plant. A.M.C. made it clear, too, that more heads would roll if the workers still failed to get the message. But so far, Romney's toughness has elicited nothing but cheers in Milwaukee. "Romney," noted the Milwaukee Journal, "is not asking for anything unreasonable. He wants results, and if he can't get them here he will look elsewhere . . . Were...
...author as well established as he still has editors. In one of the failures, a woman is supposed to have slept with her daughter's suitor to keep him (or so she tells herself) from straying to another girl. In another, a man who is neither drunk nor perverted accepts his host's offer to let him sleep with the host's wife, a former prostitute, for a fee of $100. These stories are no more plausible than they sound in summary...
METROPOLITAN: The Hustler is Paul Newman, and his target is a ponderous pool king named Minnesota Fats. Thumbs are broken and courage tried, but in the end Newman gets his man. Jackie Gleason turns in a surprise performance as the cue, ace, and Newman, who can act drunk better than anyone else in Hollywood, is perfect as a man who lives only from one minute to the next...
Working with such corrupt veterans, the rookie cop would be carefully introduced to petty grafting: cadging free meals in the local restaurants, accepting daily handouts of a couple of packs of cigarettes-for resale-from bartenders on his beat. Then there were the more advanced lessons in stealing from drunks. Says Patrolman Bobbie Whaley, 32, who became one of the most skillful of Denver's police safecrackers: "A drunk, if he had dough on him, never had it when he got out of jail. If the bartender didn't roll him, the cops did. If the arresting officer...
...late '20s and early '30s, The Power and the Glory follows the last functioning priest to his inevitable destruction before a firing squad. His sense of obligation to God has kept him in the country while others have fled, but he is also corrupt, a drunk, and the father of an illegitimate child. The state that hunts him down is ruthless and godless, but its socialistic ideals are presented with both sympathy and conviction...