Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York City may be sound to the core, but it is rotten around the edges. From Red Hook to Hell's Kitchen in the muttering jungle of New York's 771-mile waterfront, bollard-necked hoodlums have long kept things regular with gun, knife, cargo hook and dornick. They have prospered so well and without challenge that they have been forced to kill only about 20 men in ten years in & around the docks. Now & then one of the hoodlums went to the chair for it, but business was fine otherwise. According to the best estimates, they stole...
Playwright Clifford (Waiting for Lefty) Odets, 42, returning to Broadway with a bitter satire on Hollywood (The Big Knife) after seven profitable years among the moviemakers, tried to explain the creative urge: "What gets you all hot about a play? I don't know. A moment of pique, a bellyache, a week of exaltation. Who knows? ... I think most of us live like dogs-in the good sense. We are moved by appetites, helter-skelter, a run here, a sniff there. Like animals...
Heirloom. In Newark, Ohio, James E. Shrider, pleading guilty to carrying a concealed weapon, explained that the butcher knife was merely a keepsake, given to him by his grandmother...
Since King Unericus cut out tongues, men have not diminished in evil, but they have learned subtler arts and more refined tortures than the knife and pincers. Nobody can prove that Mindszenty was drugged or beaten. All that can be said with certainty is that Mindszenty's whole life proved he was a brave and stubborn man, a man who at every fork in his life proudly took the dangerous, uphill way; to have made such a man "recant" was a sort of miracle of evil...
...Knife" will probably get some needed whetting during the next two weeks and possibly the deletion of some superflous Odetean spokesmen. It is good Odets now, brash, excessive, spelling out hell for Hollywood in neon...