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...Little Ceaser. Edward G. Robinson's Rico Bandello gave rise to an entire generation of gangsters, thugs, and hoodlums, but none was ever superior to the original. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., is the handsome protagonist, Channel...
...educated in Corsica and Paris. With such a background, it is not difficult to see how Behn's buccaneering character developed. Starting out as a sugar broker, he got into telecommunications almost by accident. He and his brother Hernand bought a small, foundering telephone company in Puerto Rico. The brothers soon acquired another phone system in Cuba, moved on into Spain, and bought the international holdings of Western Electric. By the mid-'20s the young empire was known as I T & T-a name chosen to confuse its rickety little venture with the mighty AT&T. When Hernand...
...FIRST talking gangster film, Little Caesar, was made in 1930, depicting the gang wars of the '20s. It made an over-night star of Edward G. Robinson ("Mother of Mercy, is this the end of Rico?") and did smashingly well at the box-office. In 1931, Public Enemy followed suit with James Cagney as Tom Powers, a punk kid who becomes a tough-guy criminal. These movies were stories about gangsters' lives. They professed to deter crime by warning the public about violence in the streets, but managed instead to glamourize the gangster as a rebel hero. It was because...
...Durso and "Rico" Bridich carried the big bats for the Crimson as each came up with three RBIs and three hits. The game wasn't a rout all the way, however, as the Huskies jumped on starter Norm Walsh for back to back home runs by Dave Midungo and Mike Archambault for a two run lead in the first inning...
...four bagger put Tufts within three runs, the closest it came all day. The Crimson had already struck for five runs in the second on a triple by Ric LaCivita that scored Hal Smith, a two-run homer by 'Rico' Bridich and a pair of walks to Malinowski and Kevin Hampe, both of whom scored later on an error and a wild pitch...