Word: aliases
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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¶The New York syndicate. Headquarters: Manhattan. The command: Frank Costello and his No. 1 man, swart Joe Doto, alias Joe Adonis. Its specialties: gambling casinos, slot machines, crap games.
The "unsalable" wits were not exactly unknown even in the early days of the Round Table. Everybody read F.P.A.'s "Conning Tower" in the Tribune; Deems Taylor was the World's bright young music critic; George Kaufman was the influential drama editor of the Times; Harold Ross, editor...
Illinois. Just when Chicago was congratulating itself on an alltime record of 13 days without a single reported homicide,* police found the body of one Joseph Barren, alias "Chicken Joe," in a backyard with a knife in his heart.
Whodunit Author John Dickson Carr (alias Carter Dickson), master of the murder in a locked room, took deadly aim at Whodunit Writer Raymond (The Big Sleep) Chandler, who specializes in hard-boiled detectives and publicly hoots at his clue-scattering colleagues (TIME, April 24). In a New York Times review...
The leader of the gang to which Peyson belonged, the rumor went, was burly, 180-lb. Boysie Singh, alias Julie Mama. Like Blackbeard, who braided ribbons into his beard and went into action with smoldering fuses behind his ears, Singh knows the value of a proper appearance. During the war...