Word: ganglander
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...greatest threat yet. Later this month he will testify before the Senate's McClellan committee. Already the Justice Department is readying a score of new indictments. But the Government's fear has been that Valachi's startling confession might touch off a new wave of gangland killings as hoodlums sought to weed out bad risks. At week's end it happened. Two Brooklyn thugs died as bullets sprayed their cars in two separate attacks. One was a member of the Gallo gang, from which killers had been recruited for the rub-out of Albert Anastasia...
...Avenge a Pal. Inevitably, the division of powers in Cosa Nostra has bred jealousies. Valachi for the first time linked some of the top names of gangland past and present in a drama of rivalry and murder...
...Witness), cast to type as the card-carrying hoodlum, almost succeeds in heisting the show from Danny when in the last reel, Telly-on the Diners' Club-rents Avis Fords, gladiolus bouquets, peony-print bridesmaids' outfits, redheaded office girls, and messengers on bicycles to stage a gangland wedding getaway. Danny Kaye does not even have a git-gat-gittle patter song to reassure audiences that they are watching him and not Jerry Lewis. What's more he seems to know that there is something fishy about his getting caught in this eat-now-pay-later bouillabaisse...
...Tough Tony") Anastasio, 57, boss of the Brooklyn docks, a ship-jumping Italian immigrant who shrewdly used the muscle of his brother, Murder Inc.'s Chief Executioner Albert Anastasia, to get to the top, then surprised everyone by staying there (and staying alive) even after Al's gangland murder in 1957; after a long illness; in Brooklyn. Charged with everything up to and including murder but never convicted, Tough Tony gained the grudging respect of dock employers as well as union men by getting the work done and increasing pay, fringe benefits and job opportunities...
Looking greyer and more gravelly than ever, Frank Costello, 71, learned that the U.S. has every intention of giving him the boot-right back to his native Cosenza on Italy's instep. The gangland chieftain was stripped of his citizenship in 1959 after a U.S. district judge ruled that the onetime rumrunner and kewpie-doll salesman had been naturalized fraudulently in 1925. Now the U.S. Court of Appeals in Manhattan has turned down his attempt to upset a deportation order. Rasped Costello: "Italy is O.K. to visit but not to live in too long...