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...What are we supposed to do?" asked aggrieved expatriate Frigenti. "Form another mobsters' syndicate-or eat each other?" Instead, he offered to lead 500 gangster exiles in a 140-mile hunger march from Naples to Rome for a demonstration before the U.S. embassy to seek re-entry into the U.S. "In America," Frigenti proclaimed, "these people were used to handling thousands and thousands of dollars. They drove in powerful automobiles...
Smiling through her pain, the young woman is wheeled into the delivery room for her first baby while the nurse tries vainly to notify the father. Where can he be? Far from the hospital, he has just installed an ingenious electronic warning system in the house of a gangster. He and his criminal client are admiring it when suddenly the alarm sounds; a time bomb has just been shoved through a cellar window. At the very moment the doctor in the hospital snips the umbilical cord of the baby girl, the young father', sweating with tension, snips the bomb...
...villain and the colonials, was a boy when the picture was made and could creditably show the workings of a fourteen-year-old. Massey, on the other hand, does not portray the subtle mentality of an Indian. As someone in the movie says, he is only another gangster...
...into a politician." The elected judge, if he wants to be reelected, must make all the commitments of a politician. New York, a pioneer among the states for elective judiciaries, will not soon forget the tapped telephone conversation between Thomas Aurelio, candidate for Supreme Court justice in 1943, and Gangster Frank Costello. Gushed Aurelio: "I want to assure you of my loyalty for all you have done. It's undying." Aurelio was elected and is still serving. Politics has impaired the dignity of the courts in many ways short of association between judges and gangsters. In 1948 George Maxey...
Webb dated her twice a week for two months, recalls: "I detested every minute of it." But he got her story-for nothing. Last fall he scored another clear triumph by persuading Gangster Billy Hill, undisputed boss of London's vast underworld, to let him ghost Hill's life story ("I am the gangster who runs the underworld"). Shortly after, Gangster Hill vanished from the sight of London police, who want to talk to him about a $100,000 gold robbery...