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...victim had left 20 minutes early to get a barbershop shave. He just fired five shots into the first short, fat man who came out the door-it happened to be a music-publishing executive named Irving Penn. Penn screamed and collapsed, dying. Parisi jumped into a stolen getaway car, driven by one Seymour ("Blue Jaw") Magoon-and found that a gravel truck was blocking the street...
...Forgetful. He was taken back to Brooklyn, put on trial for the murder of an A.F.L. official named Morris Diamond. Ex-gangster Allie ("Tick Tick") Tannenbaum told the jury all about the crime. But another hood named Angelo Catalano-who had earlier admitted driving Parisi's getaway car-last week took the stand and said blandly, "That ain't the guy." A corroborating witness who had seen the murder just couldn't identify the killer either. Since a man may not be convicted of murder in New York solely on the testimony of accomplices, the judge helplessly...
...Getaway Money. As Biographer Taylor sees it, Fields's whole life was shaped and distorted by his childhood experiences. "Fields's early grapples with things like hunger, frost, bartenders and police gave him a vast, watchful suspicion of society and its patterns." As a comedian, he appealed to the streak of fundamental pessimism lurking in everybody. In grownups, children and animals he always expected the worst-and he was usually right. Audiences found it uproarious...
...accounts all over the U.S.; at one time he had 700 of them. Once Gene Fowler saw an eye-filling roll of bills, $4,000 worth, in Fields's pocket. Asked what the money was for, Fields answered in a tone that closed the discussion, "It's getaway money...
Misery Loves Company. In Casper, Wyo., Hilbert LeRoy McCready made his getaway from a traffic smashup, but was nabbed when two convicts, watching from jail, reported his license number...