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...neighbors, who used to watch dapper little James ("Occo") Tamer mowing his front lawn, didn't suspect that he was an ex-gunman and bank robber. The Detroit police knew. What's more, they had a pretty good idea that velvet-voiced little Jimmy (out of prison on parole) was Detroit's public enemy No.1-resident boss of the city's dope smugglers, policy operators, syndicate thieves (specializing in furs and jewelry) and bookmaking ring. He wasn't the kind of man who could do it all on his own: he was, the police were convinced...
Over the phone one day last month came a call from a player on the Boston Bruins pro hockey team. Asked Tamer: "How are things going?" The player: "Don't worry about the game tonight. One of the players is sick and another's baby died and he won't be playing. I'm going to be the only one able to play well and I don't intend to do so good. Don't worry...
...Calls Went East. As soon as the player hung up, Tamer was on the phone to New York. The Detroit police noted that many of his long-distance "information" calls went east; presumably he was relaying the dope to Boss Costello, whose office sets the national odds on pro hockey games...
...dips deeply into his reservoirs of energy, belligerency and profanity when dealing with these forces of evil, but he does so with a comparatively relaxed air-something like a lion-tamer lobbing house cats into the chandelier of a Sunday morning. His real enemies are the phonograph record and its cousins, the motion picture sound track and the radio station turntable. He is mortally afraid that without James Caesar Petrillo, all the music in the U.S. would eventually be produced by one non-union musician playing a musical comb into a microphone...
...field yesterday, tiger-tamer Dick Harlow and his fellow coaches were stymied by the ever-present hour exams. Only about half of the projected starting even got out to the tenth-hour drill, and practice was cut short at 5"15 o'clock...