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Because his child was killed [by a teenage hoodlum] gives more reason than ever for Research Chemist William Blankenship to carry on his work to rid the street "jungles" of such criminals and the causes that contribute to their creation. The young victim is a martyr to the cause. For most every good and lasting cause, someone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 6, 1955 | 6/6/1955 | See Source »

Gangsters deported from the U.S. to Italy usually suffer from acute nostalgia for the old easygoing, easy-taking American ways. Last week a deported Chicago hoodlum named Frank Frigenti remembered enough of his American education to organize a sort of Neapolitan public-relations campaign. Frigenti was once condemned to the electric chair for murdering his mother-in-law, but his sentence was changed to life imprisonment, ending in deportation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EXPATRIATES: The Hungry Gangsters | 5/2/1955 | See Source »

...black hole of a school room, jampacked with 35 surly inmates, Teacher Ford spends all his energies in the fight to keep the barest sort of order. He humors, scolds, tries to entice interest. No luck. When he dares to discipline, one young hoodlum asks: "You ever try to fight 35 guys at one time, Teach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 21, 1955 | 3/21/1955 | See Source »

Convinced that Premier Diem, with his accent on austere morality, is going to be in power for a while, Saigon's powerful hoodlum sect, the Binh Xuyen, agreed meekly last week to abandon its golden empire of sin, at least for the time being. "We ourselves propose the suppression of gambling dens," proclaimed the Binh Xuyen's General Le Van Vien to an astonished populace. "If we did run gambling in the past, it was only because we wanted to give the newly born state of Viet Nam an indispensable complement of money in taxes for its budget...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VIET NAM: Voluntary Disinfection | 1/24/1955 | See Source »

CHICAGO, Nov. 5-Louis Radzienda, a Boxing official for both Illinois and the National Boxing Association, today suggested a federal government ban on professional boxing for at least a year "If nothing is done legally" to investigate "alleged hoodlum elements...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nation Sports | 11/6/1954 | See Source »

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