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IN the blood-gushing days of the 1930s, Frank Brewster, chief slugger for the Teamsters' Union on the West Coast, once walloped a cop in a picket-line brawl, was hauled off to headquarters, beaten almost to death -and arose from his knees to cut a swath of destruction...
CJ It took Welterweight Champion Carmen Basilio nine bruising rounds to win back his title from Johnny Saxton last September in Syracuse. He needed fewer than two rounds when Johnny tried a comeback in Cleveland last week. Basilio shot out of his corner at the opening bell, chopped at his...
Bread & Butter. What all these men, including Pietro Nenni himself, apparently forgot was that 1) Red agents have had ten years of alliance in which to infiltrate Socialist ranks and 2) for most of those years Nenni left supervision of the party machinery to the late Rodolfo Morandi, an iron...
As it stands, however, he has a long string of improbabilities laced with bad dialogue and characterization, particularly in supporting roles. What he has is a typically exciting spy-war-fare film with a couple of good performances. Oskar Werner, a blond and proud Nordic youth, comes off very well...
"Man, those were two-fisted piano players," he recalls. "Men like Sticky Mack and Doc Perry and James P. Johnson and Willie 'The Lion' Smith. With their left hand, they'd play big chords for the bass note, and just as big ones for the offbeat, and...