Word: gangland
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Died. John Harlan Amen, 61, mild-mannered New York and U.S. attorney who used antitrust laws to fight rackets and won more than 250 convictions from 1928 to 1938, investigated corruption in Brooklyn and exposed scores of gangland-tied policemen, judges, lawyers, and three assistant district attorneys, also served as counsel during the Nuremberg trials, then was a Truman appointee to the Federal Loyalty Review Board; of a perforated ulcer; in Manhattan...
...Scala is trying hard to catch up. The ballet opened against a backdrop of black-and-white hotel exteriors reminiscent of Ludwig Bemelmans drawings; the story then moved to nightclub, courtroom and prison as it told of a girl who is wooed by a gangster, framed in a gangland shooting, sentenced to death, but liberated by a previous lover. The short piece was lavishly costumed-busboys in scarlet monkey suits, red-robed judges, policemen dressed in dominoes-and it amply displayed Ballerina Fracci's hard-edged, superbly controlled style...
...Wednesday-night fights. "I was picked up and handled like a murderer," complained Gibson after his arrest in Chicago. As for Jordan, he was taking the whole affair in stride. When newsmen finally caught up with the champ, he was hanging around with none other than gangland's celebrated Mickey Cohen...
...Liston has power to spare (6 ft. 1 in., 211 lbs.), plus a pair of fast hands that can nail a chin with a kayo punch (16 knockouts). Liston also has links to boxing's underworld; e.g.. Blinky Palermo of Philadelphia's gangland was once arrested carrying some of Liston's receipted bills. Whatever his connections, many boxing buffs see Liston as the U.S.'s most promising challenger for Sweden's Johansson, even though Liston has so far fought only second-raters. With future title fights snarled by legal difficulties. Liston has no assurance...
Died. Joseph Barbara, 53, host to one of gangland's most baffling conclaves at his plush hilltop home in Apalachin, N.Y.; of a heart attack; in Johnson City, N.Y. Mystery still shrouds Barbara's famed barbecue, where police caught 65 Mafia mobsters carrying among them $300,000 in cash, a combined record of 153 arrests, 74 convictions. An immigrant (1921) from Sicily who was convicted only once (a $5,000 fine for sugar smuggling). Barbara avoided police for 25 years at Apalachin, but after his party he was indicted -with 26 others-for refusing to explain the purpose...