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...whether they showed up or not, the mob chieftains left telltale signs everywhere. In city after city, the same pattern of far-flung enterprise and secret partnerships showed up. The committee found that Meyer Lansky and Joe Adonis are busily engaged with dice games in New Jersey and roulette in Miami. Philadelphia's Dave Glass and Cleveland's Al Polizzi are partners in Miami Beach's Sands Hotel. New York's Frank Erickson shared the Colonial Inn in Hallandale, Fla. with Detroit's Mert Wertheimer; Cleveland's Tommy McGinty has "maybe...
...Tentacles. Through Continental, the Capone syndicate has a powerful grip on every big bookmaking operation in the country. The committee first picked up its far-flung tentacles in Miami. A man named Harry Russell suddenly appeared in Miami shortly after the 1948 election of Governor Fuller Warren. There he set about muscling into the S & G Syndicate, which did a $26 million-a-year business supplying Continental's racing wire news to its own bookies. Continental abruptly switched off S & G's service. After several days of futile resistance, S & G took in a new partner-Harry Russell...
...world issues. Said he: "It may perhaps be charged that the" remarks I ... make are not wholly in accord with the traditional concepts of diplomatic conduct . . . The peoples of Latin America [must] realize and appreciate the magnitude of our effort and sacrifice in treasure and blood in the far-flung fields of the East-West conflict . . . While we are making these sacrifices to defend our national integrity, we are [contributing] very particularly to the security of the entire hemisphere...
...took just a shade over four minutes to run the Wanamaker Mile last January, but it took more than ten months to decide, beyond further appeal, who won. Last week, after polling a convention of its far-flung membership, the National A.A.U. hoisted its decision: Wisconsin's Don Gehrmann...
...Gaunt Faces. In such a book, arrangement counts heavily. Picture History's twelve sections skillfully plait far-flung but interrelated events into a clean-cut chronology. The result is a sense of historical meaning, from Hitler's first martial rumbles to the dramatic ceremony on the deck of the Missouri. Much of the book's clean impact comes from the 75,000-word text, written mostly by Novelist John Dos Passos and TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod. Closely wedded to the pictures, their text is at once sharp description and lucid interpretation...