Word: hooches
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...viceroy, specialized in laundry, loan-shark and slot-machine rackets, as well as rumrunning. He knew every hood worth knowing, was also friendly with the late Mayor Jimmy Walker (in Prohibition days, Pisano saw to it that the Tammany Hall wigwams were plentifully supplied with needled beer and hijacked hooch). But there were nasty rumors that Augie was a finger man. In 1957, he and Frank Costello had a couple of friendly drinks together at the Waldorf just eleven hours before a bullet parted Costello's thinning hair and almost put him permanently out of circulation. Five months later...
...seats in the soaring, powder blue La Ronde Room at Miami Beach's Fontainbleau (pronounced: fountain-blew) Hotel were filled with men in silk suits and women in mutation mink. Steak dinners were snapped up at $10 a plate; drink-hustling waiters peddled hooch by the bottle ("Ya might as well. Yer payin' for it"). Then the M.C. silenced the house with a simple announcement: "Direct from the bar of the Boom Boom Room [another Fontainbleau saloon] we bring you the vocalist, Frank Sinatra...
...dooed" through some excruciating jokes ("Are you Ivy?" "It's crawlin' all over me") and brayed his inimitable full-octave singing quaver. Digging into Broadway's attic of old goodies, Omnibus borrowed Lend an Ear's funny, picture-hatted Gladiola ("Skiddy, give me some hooch") Girl and a rollicking Prohibition Era chorus line to vamp the Long Island playboys...
...thousands of viewers in the Los Angeles area, station KTTV's impromptu 90-minute crime show last week was better than the big networks' M Squad, Dragnet or Highway Patrol had ever been. Instead of Lee Marvin. Jack Webb or Broderick Crawford, they saw two real hooch-soaked hoods with six hostages as they held out in a tense siege by 150 real cops and FBI agents in an Inglewood dive just outside Los Angeles...
Anti-Prohibitionist (illegal beer and hooch) Roger ("Terrible") Touhy, 59, in stir since 1933 for the Chicago snatch of Con Man John ("Jake the Barber") Factor, drew closer to freedom. Illinois' Republican Governor William G. Stratton cut Touhy's 99-year stretch to 72 years, thus making Terrible eligible for springing in August...