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Black Tuesday (United Artists) stars Robinson as a Big Caesar. He's in the death house, see? But on execution night, his moll (Jean Parker) has planned a daring jail break. Everything will go well, if only that Negro down the hall stops his constant wailing of the blues. There is also another condemned prisoner, and Eddie will take him along, because this guy knows where to find 200 Gs. Then, too, there are a steady-eyed priest, a good guard, a bad guard, and a good, dumb crime reporter. After the well-engineered escape, Eddie, the boys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Little Caesar's Busy Days | 1/24/1955 | See Source »

Manners & Morals. In Cambridge, Mass., thieves stole $2,500 from the Moll Motors Co., before leaving spelled out "THANKS" in coins on a desk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 15, 1954 | 11/15/1954 | See Source »

...Senate caucus room, a battery of microphones and three television cameras caught the drone and tension of the Army-McCarthy hearings. The performers could scarcely match the line-up of the 1951 Senate crime hearings, which starred such unforgettable characters as Bible-quoting Senator Charles Tobey, Underworld Moll Virginia Hill and Frank ("The Hands") Costello, but the cast was fascinating in its own way. There were McCarthy, alternately menacing and benign, doodling or rolling his eyes at the ceiling; slick-haired Roy Cohn, licking his lips and buzzing in the boss's ear; Secretary Stevens, eager but harassed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio & TV: Who's Winning? | 5/3/1954 | See Source »

...Mistakenly identified by the FBI as a gun moll of the same name, who in 1935 slipped a pistol through the bars of her desperado husband's cell, thereby aiding in his break from the Muskogee, Okla. jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: A Man with Soft Hands | 10/19/1953 | See Source »

...Wilhelm Von Moll Berczy's family portrait of the Woolseys had scores of contemporary U.S. counterparts. Born in Saxony, Berczy adventured through Europe, brought a group of German settlers to New York State and then led them on into Canada. With the quietude of age, he turned to architecture and workmanlike portraiture. He charged a fee for each of the Woolseys in the picture, but in a note on the back of the canvas, Berczy notes that its real hero, the dog, "was added without cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Painting in Canada | 8/31/1953 | See Source »

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