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...kids (two sisters) off to Harlem, leaving their father for good, and set about supporting her children as a seamstress on $14 a week. "Ray learned early you don't get nothing for nothing," Mrs. Smith says. He never forgot it. Traveling with a rowdy street gang, shooting crap in Harlem gutters, dancing for dimes on Broadway street corners, the harum-scarum kid got into more than the normal amount of trouble, including a marriage when he was 16,* a divorce when...
...Collins talked his way past burly bouncers and a front door with iron bars, got a minister ("my buddy") into each club with him. In his column, he reported what they had seen: "The Hunt Club [has] a well-stocked bar ... big stacks of gambling chips and the biggest crap or gaming table you are likely to see in these parts ... At the Lido Club there is a gambling room with a bar . . ." Last week, only three days after Bob Collins' expose, Clayton County's grand jury called him and his "buddies" to testify, indicted eight operators...
...gambling spirit may be kept alive in the evening by another trip to Revere, this time to Wonderland, the greyhound track. But all the aging greyhounds look alike, and the rabbit wins every race, so Boston Dog racing is only a little more refined than a crap game.Almost anyone can come to a crew race. Pictured above are three Boston University students and a friend from Tufts mingling with the Harvards. At this Juncture In the Cambridge regatta the boats were abreast of these spectator. The pin stripe suit on the boy in the left foreground is typical...
...York syndicate. Headquarters: Manhattan. The command: Frank Costello and his No. 1 man, swart Joe Doto, alias Joe Adonis. Its specialties: gambling casinos, slot machines, crap games...
...investigations progressed, many criticized his tendency to bugle off on any side trail in search of a headline, and his scattergun methods which seemed to flush many birds but drop few of them. Some, like Texas' Tom] Connally, dismissed the whole project as "chasing crap-shooters." And many professional crimebusters took a slightly amused view of the committee's melodramatic approach to the Mafia, a scapegoat dear to the hearts of Sunday-supplement writers and students of the devious Dr. Fu Manchu. But no one 'could charge Kefauver with pulling his shots on political grounds: his investigation...