Word: muggers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bestselling Novelist Willard (Knock on Any Door) Motley looked suspiciously like a mugger to Chicago police, as he prowled about the Gold Coast early one morning, absorbing local color. He talked strangely, too, after the cops picked him up. "I'm a jack-roller," he cracked, refusing to give his name, "but the pickings are pretty thin tonight." Later, at the station house, he let them in on the gag, and they let him off on $10 bond...
This supernatural hugger-mugger does not take place in a comic book or a pulp magazine, but in a novel by one of the most gifted and influential Christian writers England has produced this century. Now published in the U.S., the late Charles Williams' All Hallows' Eve (Pellegrini & Cudahy; $2.75) will soon be followed by other Williams books, and-if his effect on Britain is any indication-the almost certain growth of a small but fanatical group of Williams fans...
Saigon (Paramount), where Alan Ladd turns up with Veronica Lake after his fatiguing operations in China and Calcutta, concerns a lot of Amerasian hugger-mugger over a stray $500,000. During the film, at least three well-paid players die for the purpose of bringing Alan and Veronica together. It seems a shocking waste of life until, doubtless referring to all the money Saigon is sure to make at the box office, Paramount has Veronica explain: "All this happened because it had to happen...
...drink and marvel in alcoholic stupor at ... the tough blonde griping hoarsely into a tin can mounted on a pipe . . . and pretty little thrips who sing mischievously about adultery . . . while Ollie Twitch and his reefer boys are tearing the atmosphere to bleeding tatters from the platform and some agile mugger with greased hair is twining a boneless female around his neck and exhibiting an impersonal patch of leg meat, hers...
...Slugger Mugger. In San Diego, Mrs. Sally Curtis complained that her ex-husband passionately kissed her, simultaneously conked her with a rock...