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This morning, however-while tarts forked over to the barkeep pimp, and a young anarchist stool pigeon crawled in to hide away-the bums were waiting for a highflying drummer named Hickey, who once a year threw them a big party and got as drunk as they did. But when * Outstanding in the Theatre Guild's generally good production were Robert Edmond Jones's sets...
...crusade against corruption." The climax came when Vicente Lombardo Toledano, famed, currently anti-American, pro-leftist labor leader, gave the nominating speech for Miguel Aleman as the party's presidential candidate in the July 7 elections. Lombardo Toledano denounced the opposition candidate, idealistic Ezequiel Padilla, as a "pimp...
Ambitious, egocentric, leftist Lombardo Toledano had tried to make political hay for Government-sponsored presidential candidate Miguel Alemán by tossing up the ever-popular charge of "Yankee intervention." Oppositionist candidate Ezequiel Padilla, implied the labor chieftain, was a "pimp" and a "quisling" whom imperialistic U.S. companies were using, along with the Sinarquistas, as the basis for a budding rightist rebellion...
...City Center itself put on a lusty Frankie and Johnnie ballet which might well have attracted a censor's attention (see Music). Taunted Daily News Critic John Chapman in his review: "License Commissioner Paul Moss last night sponsored a dirty show which had in it bawds, a pimp and a couple of Lesbians." And Columnist Leonard Lyons recalled that Moss once co-produced Noel Coward's This Was a Man, which the Lord Chamberlain banned in England as indecent...
...Cannery Row is given over to an account of Mack's party for Doc. But little anecdotes of Monterey life slip in between the chapters: the story of William, the bouncer at the brothel, who was high-hatted by Mack's gang (said Mack, "I hate a pimp") and disconsolately stuck an ice pick in his heart; the story of Mr. & Mrs. Malloy, who in 1935 moved into an abandoned boiler in a vacant lot on Cannery Row, and quarreled because Mrs. Malloy wanted curtains for the windows that weren't there; the true story of Josh...