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...rackets-film types include Thomas Gomez as a mobster who operates a sort of Murder, Inc. for Stalin, and Janis Carter as a party moll with a lazily upper-class voice and a glassy manner. The movie's one original character is a popeyed, free-lance killer (William Talman) with a jitterbug personality. Best scene: the free lance collecting his pay with the boyish happiness of a man who has done his first honest day's work at a job he likes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Pictures | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

Colored folks in the sad and seedy rooming houses around Talman Avenue and West Washington Boulevard on Chicago's West Side had long since decided what to do about Ernest Craig: call the cops. Craig, a tall 28-year-old Negro with a thin mustache, a hard eye and a wild laugh, was a bad man to mess around with. He kept a collection of pistols in the two rooms he occupied in a run-down corner house and he was always firing them off or leaning out the windows and pointing them at people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Come In an' Git Me! | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

Died. Lucien S. Hanks, 87, pioneer banker of Madison, Wis., famed because of his much bruited assertion that Abraham Lincoln once kicked him out of a bed (at the home of William Talman in Janesville, Wis.) in which they had attempted to sleep. Mr. Hanks often said: "That long, gaunt man was so nervous that he twitched and tossed and kicked and snored until, in desperation, I went out into the hall and made a bed on the floor, where I slept the rest of the night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 28, 1925 | 12/28/1925 | See Source »

...today: L. W. Smith, C. D. Pinney, Jr., R. B. Varnum, R. L. White, W. B. Darling, O. M. Root, H. W. Howe, F. W. Nixon, W. C. Hoagland, W. R. Wadden, S. N. Kellogg, I. Taylor. Report on chance: L. G. Miller, M. M. Talman, A. F. Cummings, L. M. Sibley...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ticket-Takers | 5/15/1920 | See Source »

...second touchdown came after a sensational 60-yard run by Glick, Baker kicking goal. During the two final periods, however, Rutgers outplayed Princeton in almost every department, and made their only score on a beautiful field-goal by Talman. The entire game was marred by the continual infliction of penalties on both elevens...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOW OTHER TEAMS PERFORMED | 9/29/1913 | See Source »

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