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...Prohibition, paunchy, bullet-headed Waxey muscled into a string of New Jersey breweries, cleaned up a profit of $4,555,537 in 1931-32, but paid only $2,615.76 in income tax (for which U.S. District Attorney Tom Dewey put him away for seven years in 1933). In the underworld of Al Capone, Legs Diamond and Dutch Schultz, Waxey luxuriated in a life of $10 silk underwear and shiny Lincolns, insisted that "the only two vices I've got are good clothes and a beautiful home." Out & in & out of jail since 1940, a terrified Waxey was nabbed last...
Ming ceramics, both plain white and bright-colored, were more distinctive products of the age. Of the two shown here, the underworld god at left has a clenched intensity seldom equaled in Western sculpture; the Oriental Apollo at right, riding a rooster into the dawn light, is no less intense in his calmness. Both ceramics share the one quality that Chinese artists have always considered of first importance: a linear fluency like that of clouds driven before a gale...
...effectively against the Actor probably was informed why Schuster was killed and was assured that he would be safer taking the stand than shying from it. For Willy, times had not been good. He never did have an organized gang; he had only universal sympathy and respect in the underworld...
Deadline-U.S.A. (20th Century-Fox) casts Humphrey Bogart as the crusading managing editor of a big-city daily whose actions are worthy of the most intrepid Hollywood hero. Bogart 1) tangles with an underworld vice czar, 2) roughs up a witness in a murder case involving the mink-clad body of the standard beautiful blonde, 3) wins a reprieve for his foundering, 47-year-old newspaper, the Day,* 4) wins back his divorced wife (Kim Hunter), 5) calls his publisher's old widow (Ethel Barrymore) "Baby...
Within the Law. In Paris, after a fruitless three-month search of France's underworld crannies, police found Bad-Check-Artist Claude Pavie holed up in his girl friend's apartment in the police headquarters building...