Word: gangland
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Many slum dwellers applaud the vigilantes, especially since the majority of victims have been suspected criminals. The police, for their part, attribute the many killings to gangland drug wars. Yet perhaps the most frightening theory is that the police themselves may be moonlighting as "protection teams" hired by fearful merchants to clean up their neighborhoods...
DIED. Ann Dvorak, 67, brunette film star of the '30s and '40s who debuted as Paul Muni's sister in the 1932 gangland classic Scarface; of cancer; in Honolulu. The smoky-voiced Dvorak was best known for playing suffering, hard-luck women opposite such stars as James Cagney (The Crowd Roars), Dick Powell (College Coach) and Spencer Tracy (Sky Devils...
According to law enforcement officials, the murder was the latest round in a gangland struggle to succeed Carlo Gambino, who died in 1976, as the top boss of New York's five Mafia families...
...Solters, a Sinatra spokesman in Los Angeles, explained that the crooner was angered by a recent column by William Safire in the New York Times that mentioned his alleged gangland ties. "You are a goddam liar," Sinatra telegraphed Safire, who printed the singer's denial in a subsequent column but stuck by his original story. In a letter accompanying Kampelman's article, Sinatra urges his readers to join with him in "reminding the press that there is more to the Constitution ... than the First Amendment it so frequently hides behind...
...Benson Ford, New York Times Columnist William Safire wrote a savory story. He reported that New York Governor Hugh Carey, the longtime suitor of Ford's daughter Anne, had prevailed on Frank Sinatra to meet with Ford. Safire speculated broadly that Ford hoped that Sinatra's gangland contacts would get to Cohn's underworld law clients and persuade the lawyer to lay off. The column raised such a furor that Safire rather grudgingly wrote another piece reporting the many disclaimers...