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Troubled Tightwad. For all his money, though, Genovese was a tightwad. Fearful that members of his dope ring might cheat him, he mixed into narcotics dealings that he might well have handled by remote control. In 1957 a Genovese dope peddler arrested in Manhattan got sore because the boss failed to come to his rescue with a bail bond and a lawyer. The prisoner got even by spilling the gang's secrets; two years later Genovese and fourteen other hoods were convicted of violating federal narcotics laws. The boss was sentenced to 15 years in prison...
Raymond Radiguet, Cocteau took to opium, later kicked the habit and led a campaign against dope addiction. At moments he could be as sentimental as any Piaf song, which is why it was difficult to take him seriously as a poet of evil. Yet guardians of public morality damned his books (Les Parents Terribles), plays (The Infernal Machine), and films (Beauty and the Beast) as immoral and unhealthy...
...peasant foster parents, who kept him for the fee paid them by the state. When he was ten years old, they turned on him and publicly branded him a thief. From there on until 1948, he was in and out of prison. Wandering Europe, he became by turns a dope smuggler, a beggar, a Foreign Legionnaire (he took the enlistment bonus and deserted) and a male prostitute...
Valachi is an aging (60), two-bit punk-once a thief, a dope pusher, a willing killer for syndicate chiefs, now turned stool pigeon. Yet last week he found U.S. Senators treating him with patronizing respect. John McClellan addressed him warmly as "Joe," inquired if he wasn't tired from testifying, quickly adjourned the hearings until this week when the mug from the Mafia said he was indeed weary. In fact, Valachi's act was introduced-with some pride-by none other than Bobby Kennedy, Attorney General of the U.S. Boasted Bobby: "For the first time an insider...
...reliable one than Carson. Unhappily, he gives the impression that however far he traveled, he always had a return ticket tucked into an inside pocket. There is only one place where the paths of these men might possibly have crossed. In Gibraltar, Carson was arrested on suspicion of smuggling dope; Reid interviewed the mayor...