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...Telephone Rang. Last October, Michael's mother, Queen Helen, was summarily commanded to vacate her Banloc villa. Rumania's blowzy, blow-torchy Communist boss and Foreign Minister Ana Pauker, her ruddiest henchmen and Yugoslavia's Tito needed a meeting place. Tito arrived in a private train protected by 1,500 crack troops and a food-taster. The servants in the villa were locked up to insure privacy, and for four days (while Rumania's top Communists rustled their own food and made their own beds) the policymakers discussed Queen Helen's son Michael...
...poison gas. In fact, all your old friends are here: the fat German with a sear, the brave little Oxonian who is tortured while keeping his chin up, the big sex-appeal Gypsy boy with a tern shirt and 33 children, the usual retinue of glum Nazi henchmen, and, last, but not least, the genial white horse that wiggles its ears. You can't forget those gypsy kisses that's what the ads say. O.A.F...
...candidate for mayor, rode noisily into the third biggest political job in the land. On election night, although he had not yet taken office and had no real authority, he ordered police to send 400 patrol wagons out to bring voting machines to police headquarters-he suspected Tammany henchmen of trying to alter the vote for comptroller. The police obeyed, and the Fusion candidate won. In the next twelve years, the longest period any mayor of New York ever spent in office, life in the great city was seldom dull...
...only a hope. The pension plan seemed doomed, and partly it was because of union politics. U.A.W. President Walter Reuther, an old enemy of Leonard's, was naturally jealous of the prestige which a pension plan might give his rival. So his henchmen, according to union gossip, quietly urged the plan's defeat. In this, they found themselves working with their arch enemies, the Communists. As long as they thought that Young Henry would not agree to pension, the Communists (who dominate Local 600) were for them. When Ford agreed to them, they turned against the whole business...
CAPONE MOB COMING BACK, shouted the black streamer below it. The kind of newsbreak that Howey & Co. knew how to play to the limit had come along at just the right time. Four former henchmen of Al Capone had been paroled from prison, and the Herald was sure that they -and maybe even gunplay-were due in Chicago any minute. Across the page from that story, the Herald told all about "two good policemen who are on trial for trying to solve [a] murder." This kind of news, said a front-page editorial, was run "to help Mayor Kennelly prevent...