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...nearest New York counterpart to what the Chicago newspapers have made of ("Scarface") Al Capone, is the New York newspapers' slim, pasty-faced Jack ("Legs") Diamond, gangster, gunman and bootlegger. For years immune from the New York City police (arrested 22 times, convicted twice), Diamond found the city too warm for him only after some acquaintances shot five holes in him at his hotel last autumn (TIME, Oct. 20). When he emerged from a city hospital, the city police escorted him and a case of whiskey out of town. Just as Capone has a suburban stronghold at Cicero, Ill., Diamond...
Grover Parks, a Cairo, N. Y. truckman, told the District Attorney that Gangster Diamond and his bodyguard, Jack Dalton, had stopped him as he was driving a truckload of hard cider along a deserted road fortnight ago. Because he would not tell where the cider (from which apple-jack is made) was going, Truckman Parks said the city hoodlums beat him, tied him to a tree, burned the soles of his feet with matches...
Awakened in the night, Gangster Diamond was arrested on a charge of assault, taken to jail at Catskill. With feelings akin to those of Badman James Nannery (see p. 16) and of far-famed Killer Fred Burke* who was captured by country detectives after eluding the police of many a big city (TIME, April 6), Gangster Diamond protested, "They're crazy. These guys are crazy...
City Streets (Paramount). Critics may some day, examining the gangster films of 1931, find them significant as perpetuations of a culture which the more self- conscious art-expressions of the day have rejected. For here, in realistic terms, brutalized in content and set going at a breathless pace, are stories and people that are Victor Hugo's stepchildren, many of them highly likeable and articulated with fine ingenuity. In this picture, why does Sylvia Sidney tie her arm in a black sling when her father telephones her to meet him on the corner "if she has to break...
Died. Giuseppe ("Joe the Boss") Masseria, 44, Manhattan gangster, gambler, a power in the savage Unione Siciliana; shot dead by two unknown men in a Coney Island speakeasy...