Word: copse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Al managed to be pretty funny in his new role, although doubtless not as comical as the fellow his practical jokers once threw into a lake, alive, weighted down with slot machines. At 55, Al was ripe for the part; he had grown rich, fleshy, imperious and sentimental on the...
Out the Window. When the mobs syndicated, after Prohibition, Al became "The Law"-his Brooklyn mob handled executions for the chieftains of the underworld. Some victims went into the Hudson in concrete kimonos. Some were buried in quicklime in a Lyndhurst, NJ. chicken yard that the boys used as a...
On a street corner in Manhattan's Times Square, a bronze tablet marked the site of the birth 69 years ago of the late Playwright Eugene O'Neill. A few years before he died in 1953, O'Neill was sent a photograph of his bygone birthplace, then...
Dash of Spice. In Santa Monica, Calif.. Willie Thigpen, 19. caught with two friends after relieving a restaurant of $150 and 20 barbecued chickens, readily admitted the theft, explained: "I love that chicken. It tastes better when the cops are looking for me."
I left him there, still eating his oyako, and hurried into the mechanized night of Boston cops and omnibuses, feeling hungry and not at all alien.