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...each other's arms. Like a plummet at this point Boy King Mihai dropped out of the legend, for he was not to be king any more. Romantic interest was transferred to Carol's triumphant passage through streets jammed with madly cheering citizens to the barracks of his old bodyguard...
...Capone went to Chicago as bodyguard for Johnny Torrio, hired by Jim Colosimo, big restaurant and brothel man. Prohibition started to create a public demand for liquor. Gangs were formed to supply the demand, to beat off rivals. Capone began as a brothel keeper, which started his police record with a $50 fine. In 1923 Colosimo was murdered. Torrio took command of the liquor and vice gang, Capone becoming his No. 1 assistant. Fierce was the hostility between the South Side gang under Torrio and the North Side gang under Dion O'Banion. In 1924 O'Banion was shot down...
...Island between Miami and Miami Beach, built a wall around it like a fortress. He attempted to win local favor by enormous dinners to all who would come, $20 tips to tradesmen. He served champagne regularly, barely sipped his own glass. About him were always seven swart Sicilians, his bodyguard. He collected his family about him, his Irish wife Mae, his brothers Ralph ("Bottles") and Matthew, tried desperately to live the life of a retired gentleman...
...lightly. Then after 14 months' preparation he was married to six girls at once. But Gooma, his favorite bride, broke a terrible taboo at' the wedding: embraced him in public. She was unsexed, had her left breast cut off, was sent to the King's bodyguard of Amazons. By his other wives LoBagola became the father of 14 boys. Says he: "My children I love, but I never did love my wives. Who could love...
...crowd was William Zebu-Ion Foster, No. i Communist in the U. S., and his chief aides-burly, white-haired Editor Robert Minor of the Daily Worker; dour-faced Israel Amter, local Communist organizer. Equally conspicuous was dapper Grover Aloysius Whalen, New York Police Commissioner, and his gold-laced bodyguard, Chief Inspector John O'Brien...