Word: ganglander
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Technology marches on. even in gangland. The automobile made possible the invention of The Ride-in which the rider could be transported alive to a place convenient for his execution. But there was still the body, and the wearisome investigation that it could bring. The next advance was the concrete block, in which the body could be encased, then given the deep six. It was still possible, though, to retrieve it, if some detective hit upon the right place to grapple...
American tourists often have to explain to moviegoing Europeans that Chicago is no longer the free-for-all shooting gallery that it was in Prohibition days. Well, not quite. In the past 17 months there have been 25 unsolved gangland-style killings in Chicago, which is well below the record of 76 in 1926, but still in the classic spirit...
...telephone booths painted red and black. O'Connell's features Irish pipers, who lead customers in impromptu parades up and down the square. Bustles & Bowes has draught beer and sawdusty floors; the Roaring Twenties is an unabashed speakeasy with a high-stepping stage show, mock raids and gangland fights; the Natchez Queen is done up like a Mississippi riverboat and purveys ragtime music. The Crystal Palace, a cabaret theater, presents big-name entertainment and imported repertory players in nightly revues. Last year it grossed nearly...
...WEST SIDE STORY continues to be the best in town these days. All the bittersweet flavor of the Broadway play has been faithfully preserved. Leonard Bernstein's superb score and Jerome Robbins' choreography more than make up for occasional bad acting in this version of Romeo and Juilet in gangland...
...murders was that of Albert Testa, a midget-model (4 ft. 6 in.) burglar, counterfeiter and gambler, who was shot twice and dumped into a West Side alley. Testa was a friend of the late William ("Action") Jackson, a 300-lb. "juice man" (a collector of loans for gangland usurers known as "juice dealers"), who was tortured to death and stuffed into the trunk of his Cadillac last August. Testa, 48, had also been romancing an 18-year-old, green-eyed stripper who moonlighted as a police informer, picked up her lowdown by keeping her ears open as she took...