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...Striving for real class-the quiet stuff-they had moved into riches and power that Al never dreamed of. The trick was done by plowing their illicit earnings into legitimate channels. One man who knew plenty about "The Outfit" of 1950 was William J. Drury, a handsome Irish ex-pug who joined the police force 26 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: I'm Awfully Hot | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

...broken up a party at the RKO studio, where the cast of The Story of a Divorce had just presented Actress Davis with a monstrous trophy for being "a good egg" (see cut). When he heard that his didoes had prompted highstrung Bette to resume divorce proceedings, the ex-pug unburdened himself to the press: "I'm tired of being pushed around. She was the breadwinner, and I was the housewife and I've loved doing it. All I asked in return was love and affection ... I'd always have dinner ready for her when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Apr. 17, 1950 | 4/17/1950 | See Source »

...matter how splendidly a dog may behave around the kennels, he's apt to get temperamental in the show ring. A pug, owned by a little woman from West Roxbury, has been cleaning up in recent Maine shows but evidently he tightened up the other day. When a pug in being exhibited, he's supposed to curl up his tall and according to the woman from West Roxbury, "That follow can make his tall as tight as my fist; but I can't imagine what happened to him yesterday, why, it he'd just lot it hang it wouldn...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: The Sporting Scene | 2/24/1950 | See Source »

...small-time pug's last stand on the sordid fringes of the fight racket, with Robert Ryan (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Oct. 3, 1949 | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

...small-time pug's last stand on the sordid fringes of the fight racket, with Robert Ryan (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Sep. 26, 1949 | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

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