Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...found evidence that Touhy had been under surveillance from a basement in an apartment house across the street almost from the day he was released. His movements and habits were well known by his killers. "I don't know exactly who did it, but I do know the Chicago mob was behind it," a shaken Ray Brennan told the coroner. "There are some other people you can bring here. Touhy had three enemies and he talked about them often. He regarded [ex-Cop Tubbo] Gilbert as his worst enemy. [Jake the Barber] Factor was Number 2, and [ex-State...
...Cemetery, known as the Boot Hill of gangsters. Near by are the tombs of Frank ("The Enforcer") Nitti and Paul ("Needle Nose") La Briola. Dion O'Banion is also buried there, and near the Touhy plot is a grave site reserved for Anthony ("Tough Tony") Accardo, kingpin of Chicago's rackets, and present unchallenged boss of the Capone...
...hook into the Europe-wide air-warning-and-command net that NATO hopes to finish building by 1961. (Given the small size of Western Europe-Paris lies only 350 miles from the Communist frontier of East Germany-this is roughly like refusing to agree to coordinated air defense of Chicago and Minneapolis...
Eight years ago, Actor Bosley was a restaurant doorman. Born in Chicago, he started out there after discharge from the Navy in 1946, worked on local radio shows, did summer stock. Moving on to New York four years later, he picked up small acting jobs off Broadway and on TV, kept up his La Guardian waistline by checking hats at Lindy's (all the cheesecake he could eat). Good off-Broadway jobs came in The Sea Gull (1954), Thieves' Carnival (1955), The Beaux' Stratagem, and The Power and the Glory (last year). Bosley won the La Guardia...
Goldilocks the Victim. But even the present volume has its moments. With great glee, Miller lampoons the shock of the American tourist upon first encountering a Paris pissoir, adding: "I do not find it so strange that America placed a urinal in the center of the Paris exhibit at Chicago. I think it belongs there, and I think it a tribute which the French should appreciate. True, there was no need to fly the Tricolor above it." Oddly enough, the best piece is Miller's account of how, a little squiffed from cognac, he told the story of Goldilocks...