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...last month on "the Southwest's culture and crime center." It contained little that was new. But by the old newspaper trick of totaling up past gangster shootings and policy wars, Lowall gave the impression that Dallas was a racket-ridden city. His scary conclusion: "A hellbroth of mobster violence and derision for the law is seething" in Dallas and may "boil oyer any time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Turnabout | 3/20/1950 | See Source »

Married. Virginia Hill, 33, pretty, hard-boiled mistress of the late Mobster Benjamin ("Bugsy") Siegel; and her ski instructor, Herman Johann ("Hans") Hauser, 38, Austrian glamour boy who was jailed in 1942 as an enemy alien; she for the fourth time; in Elko...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 20, 1950 | 3/20/1950 | See Source »

...second time in a year, gangsters dynamited the $100.000 Brentwood, Calif, villa of Hollywood Mobster Mickey Cohen, 38. Mickey and his wife, LaVonne, who were asleep in another room at the time, were unhurt. But the neighbors were getting a little peevish over all the racket made by Mickey's playmates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Thoughts & Afterthoughts | 2/20/1950 | See Source »

...Crossfire, The Set-Up] has almost come to mean a low-budget picture with a future. He gives this movie some unexpected authenticity because he is capable of crossing black & white traits in a role without showing his hand. The standard rackets-film types include Thomas Gomez as a mobster who operates a sort of Murder, Inc. for Stalin, and Janis Carter as a party moll with a lazily upper-class voice and a glassy manner. The movie's one original character is a popeyed, free-lance killer (William Talman) with a jitterbug personality. Best scene: the free lance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Pictures | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

...Andy Sheridan was always on the wrong side of the law. He had all the physical assets of a good professional killer-the pasty, expressionless face, the coldly squinting stare and a contemptuous disregard for human life. By 1930, he was an accomplished journeyman killer on the staff of mobster Dutch Schultz. In 1938, Boss Joe Ryan of the International Longshoremen's Association (A.F.L.) put Sheridan on his staff of waterfront goons working with another hired hand, John M. ("Cockeye") Dunn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Another Cup of Coffee | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

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