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...saga of 38-year-old Sid McMath. There was McMath the poor boy, born in a dogtrot cabin on an Arkansas farm; McMath the amateur boxer, and honor student at the state university; Major McMath the Marine Corps hero, with the Silver Star for bravery on Bougainville; McMath the racket-busting prosecutor who cleaned up gambling in Hot Springs; McMath the family loving governor...
Warshaw takes the speed and racket of modern city life as matters of course, believes that a painter needs to get the same dash and smash onto his canvases. His test of a picture: "Can a spectator, after driving 30-miles-an-hour up a neon-lit, billboard-splattered street, stop off at a gallery and see a painting without slowing down visually?" He hopes that, with his own work, the answer will always...
...Ocean Drive (Columbia] is a gangster melodrama unconvincingly disguised as a documentary crusade against an $8-billion-a-year gambling racket. It was filmed, say its pressagents, under threats of violence from the underworld and with the protection of police. It begins with an endorsement by Wisconsin's Republican Senator Alexander Wiley, hailing it for informing the public "of the meaning of that innocent $2 bet at the candy stand." One point in the picture's favor: it is full of interesting electronic gadgets (e.g., walkie-talkies, relay amplifiers) illustrating the illegal transmission of betting information from...
...witnesses testified-gambling in Broward County is controlled by New York and New Jersey gangs, and bookmaking in Miami Beach by the S & G Syndicate, which also has investments in valuable beach property. But the hearing produced an interesting tale about the S & G, which was a local racket until it began having certain difficulties last year...
...failure to make it the first time, Dewey had missed the White House; he had been too assured, his personality did not charm the voters, and he had tried to win without discussing the issues. But when all of this was said, his had been a remarkable career: a racket-busting prosecutor at 33 who put behind bars "Lucky" Luciano, Irving ("Waxey Gordon") Wexler, Tammany's Jimmy Hines, .Wall Street's Richard Whitney and many a little name in the loan and extortion rackets; at 40, an honest, efficient governor and able politician who had cut taxes, backed...