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Died. Anthony R. ("Tony") Gizzo, 52 Kansas City underworld bigshot; of a heart attack; in Dallas, where he had gone to visit son Robert Gizzo, jailed on a narcotics robbery charge. A sidekick of Political Mobster Charles Binaggio, who got his in a 1950 gang killing, Gizzo was named by the Senate crime investigators as the Capone mob's Kansas City gambling liaison...
...this sort of thing was not entirely distasteful to some firms. Jarka Vice President Captain Douglas Yates put it succinctly when he explained why he hired one Albert Ackalitis, a mobster with a police record as long as a towline. "The guiding thought in hiring Ackalitis," said Captain Yates, "frankly, was to have on that pier some order and discipline, as I call it, amongst...
...helped out in the syndicate's negotiations with Howard Hughes and was hired at $15,000 a year as a labor-relations consultant for RKO. At one point in his career, according to the testimony of "Cherry Nose" Gioe, Korshak had helped to arrange parole for the Chicago mobster and Al Capone crony...
...McThing has plenty of wacky motivations and a fair number of funny moments. It pries open the mind and pleads the cause of childhood, and, by contrasting old-maid tea parties with raffish mobster quadrilles, pleads the cause of bohemia, too. It also lets Helen Hayes go on an expert binge of bit-part shenanigans...
...film's mythical city (misleadingly introduced with a shot of Manhattan's Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street) is run by an old-fashioned mobster (Robert Ryan), now quasi-respectable, in alliance with a mysterious mastermind of U.S. crime and corruption. The only honest public official in town is Police Captain Robert Mitchum, and though the crooks have had him shifted to a "quiet" district, all the picture's five killings take place in his bailiwick...