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...York cops knew by the head lines that Gambler Frank Erickson was coming - and they baked him a cake. Four days after the pudgy-faced bookmaker told a Senate committee that he was earn ing $100,000 a year from the rackets, Manhattan's District Attorney Frank S. Hogan raided Erickson's oak-paneled Park Avenue office suite. Armed with a warrant, the D.A.'s men spent a leisurely day riffling through the files, trucked away five drawers and three cartons full of canceled checks, stubs, diaries and receipts dating back 14 years...
...destiny of today's would-be lone ranger: try as he may to make his adventurous career a personal affair, he is pretty likely to wind up half lost in a huge crowd, becoming (in the words of one of Maclean's sergeants) just another of the " - ing cogs in this gigantic - organization...
From then until the fall of Belgrade, Brigadier Maclean shared the rugged guerrilla life. But from then on, too, his own life became more & more that of one of the "- ing cogs" in the "gigantic - organization" of Allied strategy. Chiefly as a result of his enthusiastic reports, his staff was enlarged to a small army of technicians, supply experts and liaison officers.* Amazed to find a Communist who acted with Tito's assurance and independence, Maclean questioned whether Tito would ever completely relapse into the normal Communist role of "blind unquestioning obedience" to the Kremlin...
...ing twice and driving in another run on his homer to left center. Crosby showed a great deal of speed as he scored three times, reaching on a walk, a single, and a double...
Angrily, Chia Ch'ing ordered the mission to turn home without an audience...