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...book illustration. His father had been a caricaturist, and by the age of twelve, George had a job etching plates and filling in details for him. His firsthand knowledge of London's low life was to enrich Dickens' Oliver Twist for generations of readers (Cruikshank's Fagin, G. K. Chesterton once remarked, looked as if Fagin himself had done it). Few could recall Cruikshank's later illustrations for Uncle Tom's Cabin or the series of etchings entitled simply The Bottle, in which he did penance for the wild joys of his youth...
...like Hitler's book-burnings ? If Chaucer must be banned because he tells us that medieval Jews were usurers (a profession forbidden to medieval Christians by their popes, and to medieval and modern Moslems by their Koran), what of Shakespeare with his Shylock, and Dickens with his Fagin; what of the Bible (I Thessalonians, II, 14-16); what of the Koran; what of the Arabian Nights, where a Jew is said to have cheated an orphan (Aladdin) and his widowed mother of the true price of a table service brought them by a jinn...
Three New York detectives were watching the home of one Harry ("The Mustache") Rosen, suspected Fagin and fence for a gang of teen-age garment thieves. They spotted two youths entering and leaving, followed them to the home of Harvey Stemmer, a second racketeer. The detectives picked up the boys, grilled them at police headquarters. The youths got panicky and spilled a lurid story: they were members of the Brooklyn College basketball team, had pocketed bribes of $1,000 (to be split with three other teammates) to throw a game with the University of Akron; they had also arranged...
...Corp., a Delaware corporation,* has made $17,250,000 of loans in 17 years. In the last two it collected $250,000 in extra-legal interest. Doing an installment-sales-financing business in Manhattan's used-car district. Pacific Finance itself kept well within the law. A corporate Fagin. it did most of its sharking through dummy agencies, sometimes as many as 35 at once. Typical dummy: Chase Discount Corp., whose president and other officers were $25-a-week girls in Pacific Finance's of fice. Furnishing the capital and collecting the profits, Pacific never set its name...
...Moscow streets, Mustapha helps lick his cronies into social shape and is pleased with plans to build 50 mi. of railroad so that the Children's Collective can import raw material to provide work for idle hands. A model of regeneration, his great moment arrives when Fomka Zhigan, onetime Fagin of the wild boys, establishes a brothel near the Children's Collective. Aided by his comrades, Mustapha demolishes the place much as Carrie Nation used to demolish saloons, is later killed for doing so by Zhigan. Pictorially brilliant, like many another Russian film, Road to Life is tentative rather than...