Word: hoodlum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Daily Mirror Columnist Dan Parker had a deceptively complicated explanation. Saxton had been a promising amateur boxer, Parker remembered, but as a professional he had earned a shot at the title by knocking over a series of stumblebums. Now he was managed by Blinky Palermo, a Philadelphia hoodlum unable to get a license in New York. To make matters worse, Blinky was friendly with Frank Carbo, the underworld boss of boxing. And Carbo owned a piece of Kid Gavilan...
Unloved Girls. On the drama front last week, TV was well-served by three young actresses and a dozen men. The actresses were all love-starved: on Robert Montgomery Presents, Janice Rule proved movingly simple as an adolescent who found death as well as love with a hoodlum; on Philco TV Playhouse, Eva Marie Saint was convincing as another tortured girl who finally married a man old enough to be her father; on Lux Video Theater, Marilyn Erskine brought surprising authority to the role of self-conscious Catherine Sloper in The Heiress. The dozen male actors had a fine time...
Poverty? None of the victims were robbed. Neglect? All of the boys came from good homes; they belonged to the old, respected element. Ignorance? All had good school records. Organized crime? None belonged to hoodlum gangs which are the farm clubs of the New York underworld. Three of the four had been summer camp counselors; they liked athletics, played handball, swam at neighborhood pools, liked books and music...
Died. Francis Mariotte (alias Frank Diamond), 61, Al ("Scarface") Capone's muscleboy during the racketeering heydays of the '205 and '303; of a shotgun blast (triggerman unknown) fired as he was opening his garage in Chicago's West Side. Swarthy, hotheaded Hoodlum Mariotte made a fortune as manager of Capone's far-flung network of brothels, since 1948 has been a Chicago contractor...
...Angeles hoodlum named Joseph and Mary Rivas, who graduated from "switch knives, snap guns . . . and, for the very poor, socks loaded with sand" to ownership of the Lee Chong Grocery, and now keeps busy trying to figure out a way to cheat at chess...