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...While appealing a five-year conviction for perjury before the Kefauver committee, and awaiting trial on charges of engineering a $500,000-a-year Fire Department shakedown racket, New York's ex-Water Commissioner James J. Moran is studying at St. John's University in Brooklyn. His two courses: Principles of Ethics and Introduction to Christian Theology...
...Columbia) rates a B-plus for its efforts with a B-picture plot: the old one about the detective who bores from within a big-city racket to get the goods on the mystery man at the top. It is full of sluggings, shootings and characters with fake identities; the mastermind is the last anyone would suspect, and, at a venerably crucial moment in the final reel, the hero's girl falls into the villain's clutches...
...nearly three times Hollywood's annual output of feature movies. The 18-acre Roach lot, once used for such movie epics as Joan of Arc and Of Mice and Men, now gives houseroom to TV's Amos 'n' Andy, Trouble with Father (featuring Stu Erwin), Racket Squad, Mystery Theater, and a filmed version of Beulah...
...Trucking Racket...
...nothing, as Harvard has done since Bingham appeared on the scene, but it is terribly wrong for young men to do the same thing, though the young men ask only the few pence that will give them a college education and the old men operate a billion-dollar racket...