Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fred Sheppard, 76, of Baltimore, father of 25 children, went to the House of Correction for operating as a fence for a smallfry gang of 11- and 12-year-olds. Farmer Charles Mleynek, of Earlham, Ia, was found dead in his living room, shot by someone who knocked one afternoon at his kitchen door...
...guns. Al escaped. The O'Banions were not really broken until 1929. That was the year that five Capone gunmen, three dressed like harmless policemen, carried out the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, leaving seven men dead in a North Side garage. It was the Austerlitz of gang killings...
Even readers who stick with Author Cahill to the end will never unravel the whole mystery of what happened to Professor Teigne, but they will get 200,000 words-now stimulating, now baffling-about Chinese art, philosophy, politics and paradox, mixed in with gang fights, raids, a U.S. hero and heroine and hissing Japanese spies. Novelist Cahill's polar north lies somewhere between André Malraux's Man's Fate and Cartoonist Milton Caniff's Terry and the Pirates, but lacks the invigorating climate of either...
Last week, with the basketball season nearly half gone, Keaney's firehouse gang was one of a dozen major U.S. college teams (out of more than 400) still unbeaten.* They ran past bewildered New Hampshire, 88-64. Then they went after Maine. Sixty-two-year-old Coach Keaney was as much a part of the show as his team...
...sell his inside story of the Hitler household to the U.S. occupation authorities. Price: immunity for himself and family. But Willy falls into the hands of a cynical U.S. war correspondent posing as a captain, who wants the story but has no power to save Willy. Worse, a gang of fanatical SS men, still at large, moves into the valley and goes gunning for Willy...