Word: busters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conspirators handled it like baddies in a Buster Keaton film. One of them showed up at the Pusan airport with overweight baggage, left behind a suitcase containing an incriminating note in English ("Turn your nose north; your life will be spared"). Another dashed off hysterically at plane time, held up departure long enough to fire off a telegram implicating his brother. But once in the air, the conspirators were professional enough. As the Korean National Airlines plane neared Seoul, they held U.S. civilian pilot, Willis Hobbs, at pistol point. Instead of touching down at Seoul, the twin-engined...
Lion Defensive Coach Buster Ramsey, for one, prefers a touch of meanness to a taste for heroics. "We don't hire linebackers that aren't mean," admits Ramsey readily. "And the first few days on the practice field in 1953 you could tell that Schmidt was a man we could use. But unlike some linebackers, he's clean at being mean." Says Schmidt simply: "I tackle low and hard. There's only one reason for a high, crashing tackle-to hurt a man. It gives me just as much satisfaction to nail a hard-running back...
...half a dozen garlic-smeared slugs, and Keating (Richard Egan) is assigned to make the case against the goons who got him. He gets nowhere fast. The longshoremen, as usual, are afraid to talk. The victim himself refuses to "rat." The affable union boss (Walter Matthau) plies the racket-buster with bribes and threats. His chief witness disappears. But somehow the interest remains...
...Knowland, 49, stepped into an F-100F Super Sabre jet at Los Angeles International Airport for an invigorating supersonic flight, whizzed along over the Southern California desert at more than 1,000 m.p.h. to break the sound barrier, smilingly received a certificate of membership in the exclusive "Mach Buster's Club." Scheduled for this week: a Sacramento press conference at which every Californian from Governor Goodwin Knight to MGM's Leo the Lion expects him to announce his candidacy for governor...
...precocious teen-age pupil of Murder Inc.'s Louis ("Lepke") Buchalter, urbane, well-tailored Iceberg Johnny Dio, 43 (real name: Dioguardi), was belatedly packed off for a three-year stretch at Sing Sing by Racket Buster Tom Dewey in 1937. The charge: extorting protection money from garment district truckers and cloak-and-suiters. Long out of stir and prospering by 1950, Dio became a smoother thug, refined his old muscle technique to set up "paper locals" (no rights, few members), shook down businessmen with threats of "labor violence" and picketing. So powerful grew "Mr. Dee" that two months...