Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...high melodramatic tension-one talent in which Hollywood still leads the world. Robert Young does modestly and well as the detective whose job it is to smell out the apparently unmotivated killer. Robert Mitchum has a great deal of laconic authority as the sergeant who holds the harassed gang of soldiers together; Robert Ryan turns in the scariest performance of the season as the over-talkative, pathological Jew-hater. Gloria Grahame is one of the very few well-baked tarts in any recent movie. And Paul Kelly has some remarkably effective moments as the man who hangs around her headquarters...
...afternoon last week, the prison trucks pulled up at State Highway Camp 18, a dreary collection of wooden buildings in the piney woods and palmetto lowlands of Georgia's coastal plain. They were bringing back the road gang from its grass-cutting job along Jesup Highway. The Negro convicts were hustled out and herded in front of one of the barracks. There was a confusion of orders and shouting. Then, as quick as a shimmer of summer lightning, something happened...
...coroner's jury tried to piece together the story. Warden Worthy, paunchy and thin-lipped, looking more like a schoolteacher than a road-gang boss, said that the trouble had started out on the highway when the convicts refused to work. He said that he had intended only to punish the ringleaders. He was defiant: "I got a right to knock 'em in the head and drag 'em to the hot box if I can't put 'em in anyways else." But he insisted that he had not fired until a Negro lunged...
...UNSCOP plowed prosily through tons of documents submitted by rival Jewish organizations. (The Arabs boycotted the committee.) Meanwhile, members of the underground Irgun Zvai Leumi attempted to kidnap a Palestine Government liaison officer attached to UNSCOP, but failed. The underground Stern Gang, rejecting a proposed truce during the inquiry, killed four British soldiers, wounded seven others...
Choice Choices. In fact, readers could take their pick of a dozen theories: the murder involved a fight over stolen jewelry; it was gang war for control of a news service to bookies; it was tied up with a West Coast shipping strike; it was war over distribution of a certain brand of Scotch whiskey; it was "The Syndicate," roiled over Bugsy's losses as manager of its $6,000,000 Flamingo Club at Las Vegas. To some confused readers it seemed that there must have been a lot of people standing outside the rose-trellised window that night...