Word: hoodlums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sharpened its message. Chicago jukebox operators, anxious to stay 1) healthy and 2) in business, bombarded Lormar with orders; a rival wholesale record firm in one year lost $800,000, or 90% of its trade. Principal reason: Lormar's was the property of Charles ("Chuck") English, a Chicago hoodlum and acquaintance of top mobster Tony Accardo...
Died. Wallace Irwin, 83, popular humorist of a generation ago, syndicated newspaper columnist and magazine writer, creator of Hashimura Togo and his Letters of a Japanese Schoolboy, light versifier (The Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum), novelist (Seed of the Sun, Lew Tyler's Wives); in Southern Pines...
...same revivifying effect as Ne Win's takeover in Burma. Sarit, who is not in the best of health, seems to have gone through a moral regeneration. He has ordered the end of legalized opium dens; closed 27 Communist or pro-Communist newspapers and magazines; cracked down on hoodlum-run labor unions as well as three shakedown organizations formerly run by the police, and in a final burst of virtue ordered nightclubs to close at midnight. There was a time not long past when Sarit closed nightclubs in another way- as the last customer. He has concentrated...
Goaded by her uncle-in-law (implacably played by Zachary Scott), Temple tells all in a flashback confessional. It is a litany of lust and degradation. Eight years before, Temple had been kidnaped by a spiderish hoodlum named Popeye, kept six weeks in a Memphis brothel, and ''loved it." ("Nun" is a 19th century word for whore.) A year later Temple married the slack-spined Virginia gentleman, Gowan Stevens, who had been too drunk at the time of the kidnaping to protect her. It is only when Temple proposes to relive the bad old days with...
...York City's problem schools by masquerading as a teacher. Last week, after two months of teaching, Allen began his series. His school: Brooklyn's John Marshall Junior High, which became the city's most publicized last winter, after a month of hoodlum invasions, assaults and an alleged knife-point rape in a school basement ended in the suicide of Principal George Goldfarb (TIME...