Word: gunman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cast for "Waiting For Lefty:" James A. Walker '50 as Fatt; Anthony A. Plano '47, as the Gunman; Theodore P. Allegretti '47 as Joe; Mrs. Helen McCloskey as Edna; Miss Ronnic Feltman as Florence; Ralph P. Katz '48 as Irv; Michael Kahn '46 as Sid; Martin Deutsh '49 as Clayton; Arlene Prigoff as Stan; Palmer Dixon '50 as Phil; Robert L. Weehsler '49 as Dr. Benjamin: John Mahan '49 as Agale...
...dozen fist-flourishing bystanders with the spray from his wheels. Years of diving through elbowing passengers to collect the 10? fares has given many a conductor the temperament of a yegg; most ram their nickel-plated, jingling coin-collectors at the entering passenger's belly like a gunman wielding...
Then, on April 20, 1945, a holdup man got into Reddish's cab, shoved a gun in his face. Reddish resisted, helped capture the gunman. For that Toronto's police commissioners gave him a silver tray inscribed: "For his courageous action . . . alertness and ingenuity...
Last week, when another holdup man tried the same thing, good citizen Reddish, 53, again resisted. This time the gunman got away. Behind him he left brave Alfred Reddish, shot through the head, dead...
Then Jack Burden became a sort of confidential agent to Governor Willie Stark, who gave him research jobs on actual or potential enemies. Jack rode around in the Boss's Cadillac, chauffeured by Sugar-Boy, the little gunman. The Boss built the roads and the schools he had promised to his fellow hicks; he taxed the rich to pay for them. The Boss had to do other things to get and keep what he wanted. Burden got a long lesson in power and what happens to people who have...