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...Cohesive Emotion. Intellectual Gangster Gilbert Nodiard believes that a well-run gang should have neither program nor ideas. But he is convinced that it must have some kind of "warm and moist emotion of complete complicity" to hold it together. The new German group, the Nazis, he reflects enviously, are bound by the moist emotion of homosexuality-which would never work in France, because French homosexuals are "not a very virile type...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Gang's All Here | 10/22/1945 | See Source »

...familiar name to Pravda readers, usually characterized more fully by Zaslavsky as "idiot" or "newspaper gangster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Truth Is 33 Years Old | 10/8/1945 | See Source »

...settle a domestic problem (springing his wife from jail). But he got tangled up with the police, and by the time the shooting stopped he was dead. So was a detective. Chicago, long accustomed to small-arms fire, paid little heed. But when police discovered that the dead gangster was from Detroit, Mayor Edward Joseph Kelly almost blew a gasket. Cried he: "I'm tired of these hoodlums coming in here from neighboring areas and giving Chicago a bad name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Civic Pride | 7/9/1945 | See Source »

...night Edwin hears strange music and is irresistibly drawn to a certain bridge in Brooklyn's Prospect Park. There, his brother's white-tied ghost rises from the water, and jazzily explains to the learned goof that Buzzy, star witness in a gangster murder, has been bumped off. The scholar, his double, must replace him at the Pelican, play upon the superstitious sensibilities of his killers, avenge his death by placing his fatal information in the hands of the D.A. (Otto Kruger). Just to help out in hard places, such as impersonating a great floorshow star when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jun. 11, 1945 | 6/11/1945 | See Source »

Many Britons firmly believe that 1) Americans talk like characters out of Damon Runyon and 2) that it is hazardous to walk the streets of gangster-ridden Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Britons at Princeton | 5/7/1945 | See Source »

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