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...Jarka Corp. wanted to work a new pier. The word was passed for Jarka to hire a pier boss named Tony Anastasio, brother of Murder, Inc.'s lord high executioner, Albert Anastasia.* When Jarka refused to stand for the shakedown, Anastasio's other piers went on strike. Jarka complained to Joe Ryan, and Joe blandly "recommended" Anastasio. Anastasio was hired...
...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...
...Katzman, a bouncy, bulb-shaped 51, has his own formula for keeping his earning record perfect. His five sound stages (at Columbia's dingy old subsidiary studio) are usually buzzing with assorted pygmies, giants, animals (wild and tame), half-dressed women (wild & wild-eyed), cowboys and pâpier-maché interplanetary vehicles. With these props Sam can roll into a picture at the drop of a dollar. Says he: "We don't get stories. We get titles and then write stories around them or to fit them. For instance, we had this title Flame of Calcutta. Naturally...
Died. Alvin ("Shipwreck") Kelly, sixtyish, self-styled "Luckiest Fool in the World," who enjoyed a brief celebrity in the frivolous '20s by sitting for days on a 13-inch disk atop flagpoles (his record: 49 days and one hour on a pole on Atlantic City's Steel Pier in 1930); of a heart attack, while walking on a sidewalk with a relief check in his pocket and a scrapbook of old press clippings under his arm; in Manhattan...
Beethoven's Fifth Piano Concerto was both the highlight and the lowlight of the evening. The orchestra was vigorous and forceful; Munch conducted with sweeping brilliance. But pianist Leila Goussean was as miscast playing the Emperor as Pier Angrli would be, playing Moby Dick. It takes a man--a strong man--to make this showy, difficult concerto come to life...