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Possibly in order to discourage other Soviet spivs, the papers last week reported that a court had condemned to death a Red racketeer whose crime was on almost everyone's lips. Nikolai Kotlyar, alias the Lipstick King, amassed a fortune before his arrest last winter by operating a hot...
From Scotland Yard's records came the file on James Hanratty, alias Jimmy Ryan. Mentally retarded from the age of four as a result of a World War II bomb blast, Hanratty had undergone brain surgery and electric-shock treatments, been in and out of reform school and prison...
* Where, in an unworthy blow, he referred to his opponent as "Herr Brandt, alias Frahm" a reference to the Berlin mayor's illegitimate birth.
To promote the Seven Sutherland Sisters' Hair Grower, the farm-bred New York girls exhibited their tresses, totaling 36 ft. 10 in. in length, at a Barnum & Bailey sideshow. William F. ("Buffalo Bill") Cody "partnerized" with Dr. David Franklin Powell, alias "White Beaver," to promote Yosemite Yarrow for the...
The nation's No. 1 hood, Anthony Joseph ("Tony") Accardo, 54, alias Joe Batters, is the very model of a modern mob general. He is popularly credited with half a dozen murders dating from his days as gunman to the late Al Capone, but has never spent a night...