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...Other Woman (RKO). The trouble with most stories which try to dramatize the machine age is that they seem to have been turned out by machinery. This one, even to the detail of its title, is no exception, although there are moments-like the lively ceremony of a Polack wedding in a Pennsylvania steel town-in which it comes to life. It is the story of a few crucial years in the life of a steel puddler, Jim Stanley (Charles Bickford), and his loving wife, Anna. Jim starts out as a laborer, becomes, for the purposes of the narrative...
...Oakes building the house, living in it in ancestral splendor. Then you skip to 1890. Judith Oakes, last of her clan, is an embittered spinster, mistress of a decrepit estate. The old settlers are vanishing, the Poles are coming in. When Judith discovers that her niece has married the Polack hired man she dies of a stroke. When Death comes for his parents, Orrange Olszak struggles on with the farm. The story comes down to the present again. The Baldwins have arrived at just the right time : Orrange was beginning to get desperate. Now all will be well: old True...
...Like rats leaving a doomed ship, two men jumped out. One sprinted 100 yards, fell on his face on the pavement-dead, full of little holes. The other floundered across a vacant lot, died with seven bullets in his flesh. . . . They, Frank Koncil and Charles Hrubek, were members of "Polack Joe" Saltis' bootlegging gang. Rival thugs had killed them. This was only another episode in Chicago's intramural liquor war, which has killed more than 100 gangsters,* an assistant district attorney, a lawyer and a few police-men in the last two years. It ends the treaty...
...another's warehouses, capture one another's beer trucks, slaughter one another's men. There are four major gangs: one on the North Side (with a onetime assistant state's attorney as its adviser) ; two on the south side (one of which is led by "Polack Joe" Saltis) ; one on the far west side with headquarters in Cicero where famed "Scarface Al" Caponi is king (TIME, Oct. 11). Their wars are flamboyant spectacles-a multi-punctured body on the steps of the Holy Name Cathedral in broad daylight, two more corpses across the street...
...Polack marveled, then he jumped. He marveled at the Sesquicentennial International Exhibition at Philadelphia, into which he had crawled beneath a fence in advance of the earliest crowds. He jumped when a 21-gun salute boomed the opening of the exposition last week...