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Thus ended Cain's remarkable double-dealing life as a policeman and mobster. Cain was a Chicago detective in the 1950s, and later became chief investigator in the Cook County sheriffs office. In the mid-1960s he was dismissed from the sheriffs office for concocting a phony drug raid, and he became the chief operative of Chicago Mafia Overlord Momo Salvatore (Sam) Giancana. In 1966 Giancana left Chicago for Mexico to avoid federal heat and counseled the Chicago syndicate from his exile; Cain was a trusted aide...
...scarred in a fire-aided, of course, by the deductive wizardry of his "paraplegic genius" sidekick. Another episode began with Bixby in love with a sweet young thing who turned out to be masquerading under a fake identity with the help of the Government because she once fingered a mobster. Actor Bixby is surely worthy of better things than a soulful love scene with lines like, "Two people . . . [pause] . . . become as one [pause] . . . forever," mumbled with mystical intensity as he symbolically fiddles with an entwined set of bracelets on her sweet young wrist. Despite a whole magician's supply...
...bitten capos can be seen piloting sleek craft off Long Island, putting proudly into port in Brooklyn and The Bronx. Though they favor yachts, one captains a converted Coast Guard cutter, while another is suspected of navigating a lobster boat-long after the lobster season has ended. Not every mobster can afford to "suffer a sea change into something rich and strange." The less affluent Gallo brothers, still recovering from the decimation of their gang, have to be content to splash around in a swimming pool they have built in Brooklyn, where there is always the danger of running into...
...yakuza branched out from gambling into other rackets, the gangs grew in number and power. Today the largest, Yamaguchi-gumi,* is a veritable army of 10,000 men. Under the command of Japan's top mobster, Kazuo Taoka, 60, police say that Yamaguchi-gumi has become a criminal conglomerate that controls more than 50 corporations, ranging from restaurants and bars to trucking companies and talent agencies. The gang's take from gambling alone is estimated to be as high as $100 million a year...
...academy, a theater apprenticeship, a break in the movies. A stage portrayal of a gangster led to the role of Rico in Little Caesar (1930). It was only Robinson's fourth picture-100 more were to come-but he realized perfectly the character of the brutal, power-crazed mobster. He also created a stereotype for himself and a durable genre for Hollywood...