Word: ganglander
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Died. Albert Anastasia (real name: Umberto Anastasio), 55, gangster; by five gangland bullets; in Manhattan (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...week finally pointed its finger at the acid thrower who blinded Labor Columnist Victor Riesel (TIME. April 16). The assailant, a 22-year-old hoodlum named Abraham Telvi, who got $1,000 for the brutal job, had already come to crude, ironic justice: he was the victim of a gangland murder triggered by his own hand. But the FBI seized two accomplices linked to labor rackets in New York's garment industry and put together this outline of the crime...
...Federal Penitentiary at Lewisburg, Pa., sometimes called "the country club," is also a rough place, the scene of several recent beatings and sluggings and the home of several gangland veterans of a 1952 riot at the Chillicothe, Ohio prison. Last week one, or two, or three Lewisburg inmates crept into a third-floor, four-man cell and swung a brick in a knotted white sock down on the head of a sleeping man. The victim: William Walter Remington, B.A., Phi Beta Kappa (Dartmouth), M.A. (Columbia), and convicted perjurer...
...brace the plot, Bella and Sam Spewak, Shakespeare's collaborators on the book, provide two mobsters to luck backstage during the performance. Before they return to gangland, the thugs have stolen Porter's wittiest song, "Brush Up Your Shakespeare." Advice on love couched in the titles of Shakespeare's plays, the lyrics are studded with lines like "If she says your behaviour is heinous, kick her right in the Coriolanus...
...brain of U.S. crime, who makes and breaks judges, prosecutors and gangland Gauleiters from a real-estate office in the middle of town, is known to the cast of The Racket only as "the Old Man." If anyone knows his name, no one mentions it, and nobody, including the audience, ever gets a look at him. The invisible Old Man gives the best performance in the trashiest major production of the year...