Word: gangsterisms
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Johnny gets out on parole. First night his cronies celebrate with a little corybantic in which gangster cuties are sent slithering across tables, sofas and floors as casually as spilled drinks. Johnny finds a nude Continental bunny (Margit Saad) in his own bed, and after that night she sticks as close to him as a birthmark. He has a bigger caper in mind, lifting ?40,000 from a race track. To the syncopated beat of the score, the job goes off with tingling finesse. In a bleak, snow-bitten field, Johnny digs a hole and buries his loot; two reels...
...main story line concerns the hero's search for the significance of an ancient adze, but some of the meanderings are more interesting. The rapt admirers of a Spanish bullfighter receive stigmata-like wounds in whatever part of the body their hero is gored. A New York gangster discovers that certain cactus spines are powerfully narcotic; one day he falls into a truckload of the cacti, is impaled on the spines, and dies of an overdose. In a strangely gripping passage, Mathews describes a heaven from which God has been banished. Its inhabitants run things as they...
Last week, Cicero Bookie Peter J. Bludeau, 50, was found stuffed in the trunk of another-his own 1959 Cadillac. He had been strangled with a wire, stabbed, kicked and beaten; he was left lying face up with a penny on his throat and his pockets turned out-standard gangster ceremonial for a stoolie. A fellow gambler, Harry A. Polay, 64, who was scheduled to testify before the Cook County grand jury, presumably to blow the whistle on syndicate gambling, has been missing since March...
...bound clod whose likeness is preserved in the Oscar statuette. There were some good ones, however, including one quip on the gritty mood of current moviemaking. For the best sup porting actor award, Hope pointed out, "those in contention are actors who played a juvenile delinquent, a Nazi, a gangster, a gambler and a poolroom hustler...
...been forced, but the enthusiasm was not. Spring had come to New England. Its harbinger: the 91st annual flower show of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. The place was packed with busloads of garden clubwomen (and a few dedicated men) who stood ogling the floral displays like mourners at a gangster's funeral. The highlight of the show was the formal garden of acacias and fountains from the Great Hill Farm of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Stone of Marion. Mass. The gold-blossomed acacia trees, insured with Lloyd's of London for $100,000. had survived beautifully their recent...