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...this mix-up got under way, the shadowy dwellers of the underworld began to appear. Misshapen, grotesque, these subterranean beings range from a philosophic ink salesman to thieves, ham actors, pool sharks, narcotic addicts, bartenders, shyster lawyers, all alike in their casual disloyalty, bitter humor, and command of tough talk. Pete faces a villainous environment with all the breezy self-confidence of the hero of a James Cagney melodrama, eventually licks it. But readers are likely to find Author Mclntyre's picture of the Philadelphia underworld too one-sided to be credible, and Pete's final triumph...
Pickpockets, prostitutes, politicians and Death perturbed some 6,000 U. S. physicians who went to Kansas City last week for the annual convention of the American Medical Association. The underworld remained outside the convention doors. Inside, Presidential Candidate Alfred Mossman Landon did himself no harm by declaring: "Medicine will not willingly be made the servile instrument of politicians or the instrument of domineering bureaucrats." Up leaped the 6,000 doctors, roaring and whistling their approval...
...UNDERWORLD OF THE EAST-James S. Lee-Greenberg ($3.50). By an Englishman who confesses having been a drug addict for 30 years. A somewhat rascally but euphemistic account of "the underworlds, drug haunts and jungles of India, China, and the Malay Archipelago." Net effect: like that of a circus sideshow...
...Pomp and Circumstance"Elgar *Overture to "Orpheus in the Underworld" Offenbach *Minuet from the String Quintet Boccherini *Suite, "Peer Gynt" Grieg "Tales from the Vienna Woods," Waltzes Strauss *"The Mastersingers of Nuremburg," Introduction to Act III Wagner *Second Hungarian Rhapsedy Liszt Two Indian Dances Skilton Song with Orchestra--"Fallen-Leat" (Sioux Prayer Melody) Logan Chief Ho-To-Pi, Indian Tenor "Sipapu," Ritualistic Indian Dance Hadley Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square
Today the underworld fears and respects the "G" men, but the time must come when criminals and hardened gangsters will shudder at the very mention of Mr. Hoover and his cohorts. To cut down on the funds for this department would be to encourage crime and send a new wave of criminality to prey upon the public...