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Argentina last week enjoyed a gangster trial with super-Chicago trimmings. The star defendant: a 29-year-old, olive-skinned hellcat named Agata Galiffi who had wanted to be a movie star. She looked like a hard-eyed Joan Bennett...
There was Thomas Neglia, reputed North Side gambling king. He was already in a reclining position, getting a barber shop shave, when hoodlums rubbed him out. John Pisano, a small-time gangster, was shot at the wheel of his car. The gunmen who murdered James D'Angelo, a gambler and saloonkeeper, trussed his limp body up with a clothesline, left it in the trunk of his automobile...
...Business Transaction." The meaning of these unsolved homicides had begun to sink in last week when Chicago had its first bigtime kidnapping since the days of Roger ("The Terrible") Touhy. One Jack Guzik, a sawed-off gangster known in Chicago journalese as the "business manager" of the Syndicate, disappeared. On the day of his disappearance he was wearing a double-breasted suit of the sharpest cut and the newest hue-Australian kangaroo blue-a red tie, striped shirt, a Chesterfield overcoat...
Rockefeller Helps. Siqueiros claims that his tour has been a thumping success, stresses the fact that the greatest help came from Nelson Rockefeller's coordinators of inter-American affairs. Only the Mexican press attacked Siqueiros as a gangster and a fugitive from justice. Says the muralist resignedly: "No one is a prophet in his own land...
...recent report by a Government committee put most of the blame for skollieism on U.S. comic strips, gangster cinemas and Our Gang comedies...