Word: hoodlums
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Late one night, off McPherson Avenue in St. Louis, a man with sports shirttails at half-mast, strolled casually through a dark alley. He was a perfect target for a mugger. A tall hoodlum with a heavy club appeared, and with one whack, sent the man reeling. As the victim struggled to his knees, the assailant swung back to strike again, stopped when he saw the fallen man draw a revolver. "I'm a policeman!" cried the victim. "Drop that club!" The mugger stared for a moment in astonishment, then turned and ran. The cop, Otto Hirsch, fired once...
...entire staff of Crump's prison is marshaled behind the mounting save-Crump crusade, including the warden, the guards, the doctors, nurses, social workers and psychiatrists. Illinois Governor Otto Kerner has been besieged by requests for clemency from the likes of Billy Graham, Father Charles Dismas Clark (the "hoodlum priest"), state representatives, the former warden of San Quentin prison, the former county sheriff, a host of lawyers, sociologists and teachers. Two Chicago dailies, the American and the News, and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, have weighed in with strong editorial support for mercy. A Chicago TV station added dramatic...
Reese won a new trial and was sentenced to two consecutive life terms plus 75 years. During his stay in jail, he rediscovered a forgotten interest in art, and, encouraged by Hoodlum Priest Dismas Clark (TIME, March 3. 1961) and St. Louis Judge David FitzGibbon, studied painting and drawing. Once in prison, he organized art classes. Soon Reese and his students were exhibiting (and winning prizes) in outside art shows. When cramped quarters caused the classes to be stopped, Reese asked for a few months in solitary confinement. In the company of his own thoughts. Reese became a cartoonist...
Warming up at a press conference for a bit of political education work among his Iowa minions in Des Moines. Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa righteously excoriated Old Enemy Bobby Kennedy for "acting like a little hoodlum" and "not representing this country's democracy in a proper manner." The Attorney General's offense: "He travels around the world in his shirtsleeves...
...grunt and a click. Brazen and tough, he has been arrested 19 times since 1950, convicted twice (armed robbery, assaulting a police officer), spent a total of three years in prison. His underworld connections are notorious: he worked as a head-knocking labor goon for St. Louis Hoodlum John Vitale, and his boxing career was supervised by stooges of Ganglord Frankie Carbo...