Word: chain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...five sturdy sons of Giuseppe Messina were dependable boys, and each went into the family business: prostitution. At first they were successful in a small way, with a chain of North African brothels. But when they aimed at bigger things, there was trouble: Salvatore Messina was jailed in Egypt for six months, and when the other brothers-Alfredo, Eugene, Attilio, Carmello-tried to set up houses in France, Spain and Italy, they ran afoul of competitors...
...Webb found no evidence, stayed on in a London suburb with his so-called "wife," Hermione Hindin, a fulltime prostitute. Arrested and accused of living on Hermione's earnings, Alfredo said he was aghast to learn how Hermione passed her time. Though Hermione, rattling her gold bangles and chain-smoking, refused to testify against him, Alfredo got two years...
...foot of Nassau's shop-lined Bay Street on New Providence Island costs as much as $10,000; clubs, marinas, luxury cottages and the private pleasure domes of the Western world's wealthy nestle among the avocado trees from one end of the 750-mile, 673-island chain to the other...
...father, and led the expansion into four other cities. It was Jack Knight, too, who sold the prosperous Chicago Daily News three months ago to Marshall Field Jr. (TIME, Jan. 19). "All I wanted to do," Jack said then to those who speculated on the imminent dismemberment of the chain, "was relax a little, and give a little bit more to Jim." Last week James Landon Knight, 49, got quite a bit more: for $1,500,000 he bought the Charlotte, N.C. News (circ. 65,508), thereby restoring the Knight group to five papers* and moving to the front page...
Wake Off. In Los Angeles, the Utter McKinley mortuary chain (14 conveniently located parlors) sent to city employees wallet-sized lavender cards that said: "Bearer or any member of his family is entitled to a courtesy discount...