Word: hoodlum
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Wrong Bug. As chief investigator of a super-secret intelligence unit of the Chicago police dubbed Scotland Yard, Joe Morris had, since 1952, been painstakingly gathering data on Chicago gangsters and their political friends. His tactic: pick up a hoodlum, e.g., Sam ("Golf Bag") Hunt,* grill him, set him free, tail him. With the help of surveillances, wire taps and bugs, Morris filled five filing cabinets with intelligence on 600 "syndicate" mobsters, 8,000 lesser hoodlums, and a disturbing number of his fellow cops and assorted politicians...
Beyond the Kravitz case, Committee Counsel Robert Kennedy (brother of Massachusetts' Democratic Senator John Kennedy) began to throw some other names at Murray Chotiner. It developed that the California lawyer had represented Marco Regnelli, a notorious New Jersey hoodlum, who was trying (unsuccessfully, it turned out) to set aside a U.S. order of deportation. Also involved in Chotiner's dealings with Kravitz and Regnelli, in a way not entirely clear, was a man named W. A. Parzow, a convicted jury tamperer from Miami and Atlantic City, who seemed to have been instrumental in getting Chotiner and his troubled...
...their efforts to unseat able, 43-year-old Mayor Frank Zeidler of Milwaukee. A few days before the election, supporters of Alderman Milton McGuire, Zeidler's opponent, published advertisements (later repudiated by McGuire) which declared that Milwaukee was infested with marijuana and liquor-crazed juveniles and that "hoodlum mobs" ranged the city "with wolf-pack viciousness." Despite this and a whispering campaign that labeled him a "nigger lover" (TIME, April 2), Socialist Zeidler last week won his third consecutive term by a majority of 23,000 votes (out of 214,000 cast). But regardless of the voters' verdict...
Good Morning, Miss Dove (20th Century-Fox) takes a tedious two hours to say good night. A tear-stained biography of a grade-school teacher, it stars Jennifer Jones as the town's prim disciplinarian whose glacial tones can make a hardened hoodlum jump to attention. One fine morning, Jennifer gets a pain in her back and. as she awaits medical attention, launches into the first of a series of flashbacks that show her renouncing her true love (she has to pay back some $11,-ooo her ever-loving daddy embezzled), helping a Polish immigrant to learn English...
...history of delinquency (he was once arrested for holding up a younger boy at knife point), proudly announced that he had not been in school since April. He was also apparently proud of the stabbing. When photographers snapped his picture, it was of just one more arrogant, smirking young hoodlum who knows no law but that of the blackboard jungle. Said seriously injured Teacher O'Tarrell, when asked why he had not defended himself against Vargas: "We have orders not to strike them...