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After Tom Pendergast got his grip on the city administration, its seamy side got much more national attention than its solid core of respectability and its increasing commercial importance. During Pendergast's reign, the town was a free-&-easy capital of grifters, gamblers, gangsters and striptease grinders. In no other city in the U.S. were vice and gambling so well protected. When the Boss needed money, his boys put a deeper bite on the brothel-keepers, bookies and crapshooters. Tom Pendergast, who made his town a trap for suckers, turned out to be one of the biggest suckers himself...
...until yesterday's intra-squad game at Soldiers Field, he hadn't been able in grip a bat. He was swinging away yesterday, though. Crosby played ball for Andover and matriculated at forward and guard for the Varsity five this winter. 'He's only a Sophomore...
...made tolerable only by his optimism and acceptance of evil as a necessary component of reality. The devices which he had originally employed as tools for innocent purposes-alcohol to stimulate his poetic gift, sexual indulgence for the love which it engendered-became narcotics, less adequate as their grip over Crane grew progressively more overpowering." He wrote his masterpiece, The Bridge, on two grants of $1,000 each from
...Francisco, Phil Murray's hatchetman Allan Haywood delivered the bad news to Red-eyed Harry Bridges: he was fired as a C.I.O. regional director for refusing to go along with Murray's policy of opposing Henry Wallace's third party. Australia-born Harry Bridges' grip on about 75,000 longshoremen was not affected. But he was expecting more bad news -another attempt to deport...
...buried with his wife, all show Saint-Gaudens' size. Critics are apt to regard his art, like Rodin's, as more pictorial than sculptural-it looks modeled rather than molded, and seems to hold some of the softness of clay. But it is art which exerts a grip on millions of imaginations...