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The Press: Yule Log-Rolling | TIME

TIME January 3, 1949 12:00 AM GMT-5 Manhattan’s most frequently quoted newspapermen are the drama critics of its nine dailies. How the average play producer feels about them is summed up in a current comedy by a character who calls them “middleaged men on the aisle who hated Mickey Mouse when they were kids.” Nevertheless, a producer or a playwright is usually glad to quote critics in large display ads when they have something good to say about his show.

The True Story Behind the Series Godfather of Harlem

EPIX’s Godfather of Harlem chronicles the struggle of one of America’s most notorious African-American mobsters as he fought to reclaim his neighborhood after more than a decade in prison. Oscar winner Forest Whitaker stars as real-life Harlem mob boss Ellsworth “Bumpy” Johnson, who has been portrayed in multiple films, most notably Ridley Scott’s 2007 American Gangster. Denzel Washington’s character in the movie, Frank Lucas, was a close associate of Johnson’s who took over after his friend’s death.

This terrorist bomb scare prank will give you an heart attack

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WAR CRIMES: The Bitch Again

Some Germans were bitterly cynical, some U.S. citizens furiously angry, and Communist propagandists were delighted last week. The reason: a U.S. Army board of review in Germany had reduced the life sentence of Use Koch to four years. Said one German: “Perhaps she’ll go to the States as a G.I. bride.” Use Koch was the redhaired, sexually psychopathic “Bitch of Buchenwald,” the Nazi concentration camp where more than 50,000 died. Inmates said that Use had men flogged for the pleasure it gave her, and collected human skin, preferably tattooed, for lampshades and bookbindings.