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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Road, where he and his brothers collect art and lavishly entertain visiting mob chieftains. Those that didn't fade were mortally embarrassed by the subpoena servers. "They went around to the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker," complained Joe Adonis. "They made slurring remarks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: It Pays to Organize | 3/12/1951 | See Source »

...League, who promised to be brief. He wasn't. He described an experiment where a dog was beaten on the leg from 700 to 1,000 times with a rawhide mallet to induce shock. He also described other experiments. The crowd gasped in horror. The woman behind me muttered "Butcher, butcher." "Open the animal pounds," Farnum went on, "and who will say that their next demand will not be for access to . . . insane asylums...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cabbages and Kings | 2/20/1951 | See Source »

Heroine in Teddington. The vote did not still the clamorous disgust of the country. Even what little meat was available caused trouble. Miss Mary Olive D'Oyly, for 14 years a butcher in working-class Teddington, 93 miles from London, bustled angrily to Westminster with 32 housewife customers to see her M.P. On a previous visit she had taken a leg of ewe mutton. It was so fat, she complained, that nobody would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Plenty of Sleeping Pills | 2/19/1951 | See Source »

Contino likes to tell how his father came to the U.S. from Sicily and set up as a butcher in Fresno. (At this point, he usually produces papa, and papa sings in Italian.) His mother's brother, christened Raffaele Giordano but better known as Young Corbett III, onetime world welterweight champ (1933), thought young Dick would make a good fighter; he has big hands. But from twelve on, Dick has wanted to sing and play the accordion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sheik of the Accordion | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

...attorney, and pits him against a gang of racketeers inspired by Murder, Inc. The picture opens with a lecture by Tennessee's Estes Kefauver, head of the Senate's crime investigators. What follows is no social document, but a gory round of killings by ice pick, razor, butcher knife, pistol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 12, 1951 | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

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