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Dates: during 1950-1959
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How to Relax. By the time Diahann entered New York University (to study sociology), she had decided that she wanted a show-business career after all, quit school, allowed herself a two-year trial period in which to find success or failure. She won $3,000 on a TV talent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NIGHTCLUBS: Bottom of the Top | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

As the blue police Volkswagen bus pulled up in front of the courthouse in Winterthur, Switzerland one day last week, a ripple of anticipation ran through the waiting crowd. "Here he comes," yelled a photographer-and out stepped a curly-haired Englishman, bound for the most sensational trial Switzerland had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWITZERLAND: The Slippery One | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

Anthony Carfano. alias "Little Augie" Pisano, 61, started out as a two-bit bootlegger in the slums of his native Brooklyn, but he came up fast. By 1930 he had become Al Capone's East Coast viceroy, specialized in laundry, loan-shark and slot-machine rackets, as well as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Finger Exercise | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

When Chicago police arrested Joey Glimco on his first murder charge, the booking officer gave up counting Joey's previous arrests, just listed them as "innumerable."' Since that day in 1928, Tough Guy Glimco (alias Joseph Glinico, Joseph Glielmi. etc., etc.) has added a lot more arrests to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Pal Joey | 9/7/1959 | See Source »

New York. From his Midwest power base, Hoffa pushed into New York in the mid-1950s with the help of Extortionist John Dioguardi, alias Johnny Dio, boss of a shakedown ring thinly disguised as a labor union. Dio & Co. brought into the labor rackets 40 toughs with a total of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Pretty Simple Life | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

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