Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pearl never bothered to ask La Rue who the jewel thief was. But La Rue could have told her. In the days when he used his real name, Al Rocco, he had married the pretty secretary, gone to live with her in her parents' home in Brooklyn. They had no trouble until his wife began to grill him about his past (he had served a year for car theft). Then she sent him packing...
Follow that Woman. When he gave Pearl the new camera he had made, Rocco-La Rue told Pearl to go to Brooklyn and follow the jewel woman on her way to work. For Pearl the subway ride was more thrilling than anything she had ever read. She went over her instructions -wait until the train reaches Manhattan's Times Square Station, then shoot the picture at hip level, and beat...
...Brooklyn, John Roy Carlson, best-selling I-spyer on suspected subverters (Under Cover, The Plotters), appeared at a police station with head and face bruised. Shortly after he had eyewitnessed a night meeting of the jingo Women for the United States of America, said he, three strangers (male) stopped him on the street, gave him a shellacking, ran away...
...child in Brooklyn, Joseph Bonavita dreaded Christmas. His father was dead; often he and his mother had nothing on their table but a candle and a plate of spaghetti. Joe swore he would conquer poverty. He became a professional boxer, and finally, fourteen years ago, bought a bar & grill on Brooklyn's bleak Third Avenue. This year black-haired, bash-nosed Joe Bonavita was 39, married, prosperous in a small way and eating well...
...Roaring Twenties won fame of a sort as the Great Mouthpiece for mobsters and gun molls, was said to have handled nearly 2,000 murder cases, chief defense counsel at the trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann for the murder of the Lindbergh baby; of cerebral thrombosis; in Brooklyn...