Word: hoodlum
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Smuggled Pinballs. It began last year when a small-time Parisian hoodlum named Pierre Larcher, 38, got in trouble. Stocky, heavy-featured Pierre, known to the police derisively as "Pretty Boy," specialized in stealing cars and smuggling pinball machines into France. On the run and out of money, Pierre hid out in an abandoned farmhouse near tiny Grisy-lesPlâtres, 30 miles from Paris. There he read the French translation of an obscure 1953 novel about kidnapers, by Lionel White, called The Snatchers. Hurrying back to Paris, Pierre sought out his friend, Ray mond Rolland, 24. Tossing the book...
...Hoodlum Priest. A bewildered boy, entrapped by life, finally finds freedom in the gas chamber. Crude and violent, Irvin Kershner's drama nonetheless shows that the divine spark can burn in trash...
...Hoodlum Priest (Murray-Wood; United Artists). The divine spark often burns in trash, and it burns with a still and terrible loveliness in this loud, crude, violent and sentimental cops-and-robbers picture, the work of an energetic actor-producer named Don Murray and a talented televeteran named Irvin Kershner...
There were other facts of life, too, Gibson admitted. The cartel paid $9,000 to Hoodlum Frank ("Blinky") Palermo, who is allegedly running Carbo's boxing empire while the boss is in jail. While Gibson doodled, Subcommittee Investigator John Bonomi summed up his testimony: "Almost every leading manager or promoter in the U.S. is either closely associated with or controlled by Frankie Carbo in some degree...
Members of the Band reported that teen-age children began running through the lines of musicians, and that one young hoodlum belted a Bandsman to touch off the melee. A cymbalist used his instruments as effective and bloody weapons, and one musician broke his drum stick over a near-by head...