Word: hoods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Genova testified that he first heard of Bowers through John ("Apples") Applegate, an old pal from Sing Sing. Shortly thereafter a hood named Gregory the Bandit was mysteriously shot to death in a Twelfth Avenue barroom. Gregory was the pistol local's delegate. Mickey Bowers moved...
Thunder in the East (Paramount). At one point in this oriental melodrama, one of the characters describes Alan Ladd as "Sir Galahad, Horatio at the bridge and Robin Hood, all wrapped up into one." The description is incomplete. Playing a rough & ready adventurer, Ladd lands in the Indian state of Gundahar with a planeload of guns and ammunition at a time when bandit forces are converging on the Maharajah's palace. The Maharajah's adviser (Charles Boyer), a Gandhi-like character, is an adamant believer in the virtues of nonresistance, an attitude which mystifies Ladd...
...Dorado which, at $7,500, is the U.S.'s highest-priced mass-production car. It has a "wraparound" windshield that sweeps to the sides, wire wheels, and an Orion top that folds back under a steel cover. Cadillac's regular 1953 line has a wider, more massive hood and headlight visors that lengthen the fender line; prices are the same as in 1952 ($3,571 to $5,620). Optional: air conditioning, wire wheels or wire-wheel hubcaps, power steering, and an "autronic eye" control that dims headlights automatically when another car approaches, brightens them after it passes...
...Story of Robin Hood (Walt Disney; RKO Radio). All-live-action version of the old legend, with Richard Todd (TIME, June...
...Hood trained for the top job in typical Big Steel fashion, working up from the mills. After getting his electrical engineer's degree at the University of Illinois ('15), he worked briefly as an operating clerk in the Worcester (Mass.) plant of Big Steel's American Steel & Wire Co. subsidiary, then went off to war as an artillery private (he came back a lieutenant). At war's end, he went back to American Steel & Wire as plant foreman, soon worked up to boss the works. Then, as district operations manager, he piled up such a production...