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...Chicago, Ill., Mr. & Mrs. John Pappas and Christ Kratcikas were listening to a radio-broadcast account of a holdup. Said John Pappas: "Say, no stickup guys could stick me up." Just then entered three well-armed thugs. John Pappas and Christ Kratcikas nervously put up their hands. Mrs. Ruth Pappas, with upraised arm, edged toward a shelf, seized a pistol, fired. One thug fell dead. A second howled, dived under a bed, popped up on the other side, leaped from the window. The third grabbed his fallen confederate, fled...
...dies behind a billboard, chewed by bullets from a policeman's machine-gun. Actor Robinson makes Little Caesar far more complete than Author Burnett saw him? a gangster of Greek tragedy, destroyed by the fates within him. The only miscast character is Douglas Fairbanks Jr. as a tough Italian thug. Best shot: Caesar's mob raiding a cabaret protected by a rival gang...
...light in the right-hand upper corner of the building while they were cruising along Soldiers Field Read in one of the police Fords at about 3.15 o'clock yesterday morning. Finding the front door unlatched, the officers entered with their revolvers ready, believing that they had the thug trapped. A minute examination of the building, however, failed to reveal the miscreant. Police offered for an explanation of the escape, the possibility that the fugitive had taken to the water...
...black silk left-hand glove (anti-finger print), disappeared in the swarm of Chicago's midtown traffic. A warm corpse lying in a bloody welter is not an unusual sight for Chicago. This was Chicago's eleventh murder in ten days, its 43rd thug-killing of the year. But the newsgatherers, camera men and police who soon congregated in the pedestrian tunnel were profoundly impressed, agitated, angry. For this corpse had not been a gangster, or a policeman, or a mere citizen. He was a Newspaper Reporter - Alfred ("Jake") Lingle, the loud and powerful Chicago Tribune...
Like the reputable deacons of many churches in these United States, prudish, attempting not to teach the seventh commandment lest the word adultery contaminate our youth, so TIME readers fear the bullish features of No. 1 Thug...