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Last week, as it does with most mugs, the law had caught up with one of the tough taipans of the Shanghai underworld. On his way to the U.S. and a Federal penitentiary was Edward Thomas Riley, otherwise known as "Jackpot Riley" and "Slot Machine Riley," who had ridden high for a decade, for four years had been the Mr. Big of Shanghai gambling...
...wrote to her daughter: "Caroline, wherever in the world did you hear such language?" For years Caroline has been a social worker, has more understanding of the Bowery bum than respect for her bureaucratic colleagues who speak of the poor as "cases." She has seen the same economic underworld that preoccupied Farrell, Steinbeck, Dos Passes. But it has whetted, not dulled, her faith in man's ability to conquer his environment...
...vigorous group of non-green plants-the fungi. For ages men watched helplessly while these vegetable vampires literally sucked the green blood of plants, wasted their crops. But about 100 years ago, men armed themselves with scientific weapons and began a desperate war-still raging-against the fungal underworld. Last fortnight, in The Advance of the Fungi (Holt; $4), British Chemist E. C. Large offered a vivid story of the last century's battles, a brilliant reconnaissance of the enemy's present positions...
...Utopia); the late General Walter Krivitsky. For Editor Riesel these characteristic contributors afforded a probable reason for the visit: Communist footpads were looking for the address of Richard Julius Herman Krebs, alias Jan Valtin, ex-Communist author of Out of the Night, currently best-selling Baedeker of the Stalinist underworld. The raiders found no addresses...
...would have thought of him as anything but an associate of underworld journalists, whose desire to obtain crime news has often led them to cultivating the friendship of prominent thieves and cutthroats merely to obtain news...