Word: gangsterisms
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...looks, in fact, like the popular conception of a gangster, model 1929. He has bright, wild eyes, and his movements suggest spring steel; he talks out of the corner of his mouth. He dresses with a glaring, George Raft kind of snazziness-rich, dark shirts and white figured ties, with ring and cuff links that almost always match. He had, at last count, roughly $30,000 worth of cuff links. "He has the Polo Grounds for a closet," says a friend. In one compartment hang more than too suits. In another there are 50 pairs of shoes, each shoe...
...Boxer Nova, now playing the part of a gangster in a Manhattan revival of Guys and Dolls, took umbrage at Flaherty's column. "When I read this article," said he, "I was completely sick. My friends were aghast . . . Since the article [appeared], doors have been closed in my face." Nova threw a counterpunch at Flaherty; he filed a $200,000 libel suit against him and the Hearst Publishing...
...Cinemactress Ruth Roman sailed for England to star in a new film version of Macbeth that sounded more like Mickey Spillane than Shakespeare. Said Actress Roman: "We're doing Macbeth on a sex basis. I'm playing a slut (Lily Macbeth). Joe Macbeth (Paul Douglas) is a gangster who turns yellow and leaves the killing up to Lily. I'll do it with a revolver. We thought a knife would be too bloody...
Revolution swept the sunny, tropical Vietnamese city of Saigon last week, shaking and straining the antiCommunist, anti-French government of Premier Ngo Dinh Diem. The Binh Xuyen gangster sect, supported by French colonials, started a bloody uprising and was put down. While the fires of civil war guttered out in the refugee-crowded streets of Saigon (pop. 2,000,000), a Vietnamese general, supported by French colonials, tried a midnight coup d'état and almost succeeded. Locked in this squalid conflict were the precarious hopes of Vietnamese nationalism, the ambitions of French colonials and the committed prestige...
...absence of total reassurance from the U.S., these had the sound of late and futile words. The bristling headquarters of the Binh Xuyen gangster sect (which runs both the police and the prostitutes) lay only 800 yards from Freedom Palace; whenever loyal troops tried to move against the Binh Xuyen last week, a French general interposed: "Remember the truce, messieurs." Yet in Paris, a high French official privately assured newsmen that Diem could not put down the sects because his troops would refuse to fight...