THE BIG BANKROLL (369 pp.)—Leo Katcher—Harper ($5). Gangster Arnold Rothstein’s life story is the sort of straw out of which psychologists make their bricks. At the age of three, the future ...

Moving from one scam to another, Arnold Rothstein quickly becomes rich and settles into the life of owning big-town gambling joints. Along the way he falls in loves and marries, makes a life-long ...

The publication of the Rothstein Theory gives us a solution to the Whalen Traffic Plan, the W halen Crime Round-up, and the murder of Professor Arnold Rothstein. Lengthy discussion of the traffic ...