Word: hoodlumism
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...that the daylight raid on its offices had been staged by organized gangsters in retaliation against the newspaper's describing them in a story as "a pack of bandits." The thugs have since been captured, and last week police also nailed the leader of the gang, a notorious hoodlum named Michio Sasaki, on charges of engaging in another current underworld practice: shaking down corporations. Sasaki, police contend, used his knowledge of an irregular loan to blackmail one of Tokyo's top banks for $16,000. According to the cops, Sasaki's shakedown of another corporation netted...
...Clearly, Taoka has come a long way since that day in 1937, when, as a small-time hoodlum on the Kobe docks, he finished off a rival gang member with one downswing of his samurai sword -the first step in his rise to the position of Japan's No. 1 oyabun...
...garden, gleefully acting out the roles as he speaks into the microphone. The same self-conscious play-acting carries over into his dialogues with Tindle and Doppler, where Olivier handles it with lighthearted style. Where the script calls for Wyke to do impressions (such as Charlie Chan, a Bronx hoodlum, or the typical detective), Olivier presents them perfectly--as the exuberant expressions of an eccentric who's not nearly so good at voices as he thinks...
...were murdered in their beds in Clarksville, Pa., the local prosecutor knew the case was too big to handle, so Sprague was asked to take charge. By that time, the FBI had captured one gunman, Claude Vealey. He led the FBI to four others: Aubran Martin, a baby-faced hoodlum; Paul Gilly, a burglar; his wife Annette, and Silous Huddleston, Annette's father. Vealey had confessed, but his story was not enough to take all of the culprits to trial...
...sitting under an avocado tree. "Does anybody know where the algebra book is?" he asked. It seemed there were only two, and one was last seen "on the blue table under a pile of crap and stuff." Pointing at a beat-up 1952 Chevrolet that reminds the kids of hoodlum movies, a boy suggested, "Look in the gangster car." The big kid eventually found the book-and someone to teach him a lesson from it. But a visitor had to ask: Is this education...