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Alternately greedy and generous, Paganini made and spent a deal of money, slept in many an illicit bed, achieved the patronage of Napoleon's sister Elisa (Princess of Lucca and Piombo). Burned out in his early 50s, Paganini died in Nice at 58, a century ago last week. Few men have been so widely buried. For his sins, the Catholic Church declined to give him holy ground. Nice, Cannes, Antibes, St. Raphael refused him space. Three years later, when the Church changed its mind, Paganini was dug up from the wastes next to an olive oil factory, moved...
Yard police, hearing rumors of illicit proceedings, rushed to the Business School, but only to find that Patricia Archambault and Rita Hamlin, a couple of Thespians from Emerson, had uprooted and pilfered an ivy vine, to be used at the dedication of Emerson's new theatre on Saturday night...
Recently British authorities in Hong Kong smelled out and raided an illicit wireless station which had been sending messages in code over a magnificently complete, exceedingly expensive transmitter. Six young men were arrested, arraigned, fined $16,000. Court records did not list the name of Prince David; but last week British authorities admitted unofficially that David Kung had been politely but firmly asked to leave Hong Kong just after the raid. He went briefly to Manila, then disappeared. Confucius really did say: "While one's parents are alive, one should not travel to a distance; if one must travel...
...into effect. Five months later, guns barked and drilled plump Diamond Jim Colosimo dead as a herring in his own restaurant. The murder was a clue to the sudden bustle in the underworld. Colosimo, owner of brothels, had tried to bite off too much of the new business in illicit booze. That killing set the pattern for many more...
...Blood") Horowitz, executed murderer. Once he went $15,000 bail for "Scratch" McCarthy, forger (now jailed). Hines explained that as an active political leader who regularly attended sporting events his friendship was sought "by persons in various walks of life"-but insisted he shared none of their illicit profits...