Word: gangdom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...screaming into the night with five bullet holes in him. Then came "Bugsy" Siegel, but he died ignobly (of four rifle slugs) while sitting on a divan in his girl's house. After that, sad-eyed little Mickey Cohen became the undisputed boss of Los Angeles' gangdom...
Died. Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone, 48, Naples-born, onetime kingpin of Chicago gangdom, longtime U.S. Public Enemy No. 1, for years a mentally incompetent paretic; following a stroke and pneumonia; at his palatial villa near Miami Beach. (See NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...from Gangdom. Hungarian-born Eugene Ormandy is the only important U.S. conductor who ever climbed from the pit of a Broadway movie house. The climb began in 1920 when Ormandy, then a moderately gifted European concert violinist, arrived in Manhattan with a contract for a $30,000 concert tour, found that both the $30,000 and the impresario had vanished. Ormandy was down to his last nickel when he landed a job with the late Samuel L. (Roxy) Rothafel, who set him to fiddling in the last row of the second violin section at Broadway's Capitol Theater. Ormandy...