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...flourishing his blue-steel revolver, which he called "Ol' Becky True-heart," he was not infrequently arrested, but the St. Louis police were never severe with him because, in addition to numerous benefactions to the poor, he always gave $500 to any officer who shot & killed a robber...
...careers. The killing of Dillinger Gangster Homer Van Meter was the subject of one hair-raising episode, but "Gangbusters" has not confined itself to dead lawbreakers. The dramatization of the capture of Massachusetts' murdering Millen Brothers was broadcast prior to their electrocution and many a live but lesser robber, forger and gangster has had his story told. Until last week there had never been a squawk from the criminal...
...general have risen faster, gone higher, dropped further, created more spectacular characters and lurid scandals than other countries can show, U. S. novelists by & large have stood by, left the field to angry muckrakers, uncritical official biographers, or to such able left-wing analysts as Matthew Josephson (The Robber Barons) or Lewis Corey (The House of Morgan...
Adapted from two books-a biography of Daniel Drew and The Robber Barons by Matthew Josephson-by Joel Sayre, John Twist and Dudley Nichols, The Toast of New York is a lively specimen of prefabricated Americana. It aims to be and is a complete prevarication, impaired only by the fact that Edward Arnold's jowled jollities are indistinguishable from the ones which the U. S. screen's No. 1 specialist in 19th Century captains of finance has used in all his previous portrayals. Good shot: Fisk, Boyd and the Ninth Regiment routing a gang hired by Vanderbilt...
...hours later, a hold-up man entered Harry Millstine's station, took the cash register's contents, tersely commanded the attendant to wait on a customer who happened to drive up. Mindful of what he had seen in "Radio Patrol," Millstine turned on his pump, the robber looming suspiciously over him. The pump began to click and the measuring bell had pinged once when Millstine suddenly wheeled around. Whoosh! went the acrid stream of gasoline, in good funnypaper style, squarely between the bandit's eyes. When he got them clear again, he was in jail...