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...opposed to some of his earlier roles, Cagney is strong but not silent. His dialogue is strictly the Sam Spade variety--fast, entertaining, and with a stout-hearted quip for every occasion. Cagney's old friend--also a reformed alcoholic--is consistently very funny as he fusses over his tomato juice, attempting to hide its taste...
...live on mulberry leaves." Every dawn brought a poet's bonus in beauty: "The air is like silk today and there is a sheen upon the world like the sheen on a bird's wing. It's very quiet except for the gardener and his spade and warm as fine wool...
Married. Ida Lupino, 34, British-born cinemactress; and Howard Duff, 33, actor (radio's "Sam Spade"); she for the third time, the day after her divorce from Collier Young, 42, partner in her independent film company; in Lake Tahoe...
Digging further, Roberts managed to spade up a list of the Chicago Downs stockholders. Among them was many a newsworthy name: Ex-Sun Managing Editor James Mulroy,** now executive assistant to Governor Adlai Stevenson; the wife of House Minority Leader Paul Powell, who was speaker of the 1949 legislature that passed the race-track bill; Democratic Ward Boss Tom Nash, and a covey of lesser politicians...
...after midnight, four husky MPs led him across the floodlit yard of Landsberg Prison. On the gallows platform, a U.S. Army hangman was waiting for him. Blobel (responsible for the killing of 30,000 Jews at Kiev in 1941) got 90 seconds for his last words. Thrusting out his spade-bearded chin, he cried: "I die in the faith of my people. May the German people be aware of its enemies...