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...nation. Half of their 1,750 disgusted cops were in debt, others were quitting. As the Missouri State Legislature dragged its feet on a pay-raise bill, the crime, rate rose 58% over 1947. Said one $220-a-month patrolman's son: "I don't wanta be a cop; I wanta be a gangster. They make more money...
...victories or any rights. All we want to do is live." Western Union transmitted it as "love," and TIME printed it that way. At a later press conference Petrillo leveled a finger at Miss Steinert and hollered: "There's that gal from TIME magazine that said all I wanta do is love!" Miss Steinert advised him that the misquotation wouldn't have occurred if Western Union hadn't been on strike. He beamed, agreed, and observed: "That's right. These damn unions are gonna ruin the country...
...course if ya wanta go ta Wellesley, take Route...
...wrote this thing because I wanta clear up a lot of misunderstandings people have about baseball . . ." he explains in a "forward." Two prime misunderstandings...
Luciano Maniscalco, a San Francisco fisherman for 40 years, sat glumly in his bunting-draped home, surrounded by snapshots of his twelve children: one in the Navy, one in the Army, one in the Merchant Marine, one a Red Cross ambulance driver. Complained old Maniscalco, "I wanta be citizen, wanta fish. What I do now? Can't get job. Not a citizen. Can't get papers, can't write. My head she too damn hard...