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When the New York Daily Mirror's syndicated labor expert left a radio broadcast in Manhattan late one April night, he and his party were trailed to Lindy's restaurant by sallow-faced Gondolfo Miranti, 37, an ex-convict and garment-industry thug with a long record of arrests. From the next table, Miranti kept an eye on the group. As they prepared to leave, he moved swiftly outside, whispered urgently to Telvi, who stood in the shadows. Seconds later, Riesel emerged, and Telvi stepped forward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Fall-Out | 8/27/1956 | See Source »

...eyes, but the fallout from the wide-mouthed bottle sent corrosive little splashes into Telvi's own face. With Miranti's help, the thug rushed for hiding to his girl friend's Manhattan apartment. There Telvi was visited by Joe Carlino, 43, a stocky ex-convict with manicured fingernails. It was Carlino. acting for an "undisclosed principal," who had made the "contract" for Telvi's job, supplied him with the acid, and collected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Fall-Out | 8/27/1956 | See Source »

...with Six Tails. Alarmed by his agitation for Nigerian independence, the colony's British authorities in 1937 tried unsuccessfully to convict Zik of sedition, and in the decade that followed, some times had as many as six detectives tailing him at once. In the past few years, how ever, the Colonial Office's onetime hos tility toward Zik has changed to a re signed cordiality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NIGERIA: Down But Not Out | 8/6/1956 | See Source »

Time for a Change. In Anderson, S.C., charged with malicious mischief after he set off two sticks of dynamite at a political rally, ex-Convict Andes ("Footsie") Wood explained to cops: "I did it just to liven up the meeting a bit. I couldn't see who was talking from where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 25, 1956 | 6/25/1956 | See Source »

...plot, worked up by Kubrick from a novel (Clean Break) by Lionel White, tells the familiar story of a stickup. Led by an ex-convict (Sterling Hayden), six men put the heist on a race track, but even though the tote is $2,000,000, the script fixes things so that crime does not pay. Nevertheless, the plot produces a gut-clenching suspense and plenty of surprises -pulled out of the hat alive and kicking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 4, 1956 | 6/4/1956 | See Source »

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