Word: joey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...taxicab union headquarters, discovered-by the simple reportorial expedient of training binoculars on the visitors, and now and then riding a city bus past the building for a close-in gander-that it was crawling with thugs, hoods and hired guns. Their nine-part expose mercilessly pinned Joey Glimco as the leader of this unsavory band, nominated Glimco for repeated uncommunicative appearances before federal rackets investigators. To this day Glimco spits at Smith whenever the two meet...
...funerals, Smith says. "I get a good idea of who's in the mob and whom they're dealing with, and what's new." Other reporters, possibly in envy, suggest that this kind of intimate coverage can only goad gangland into throwing something more substantial than Joey Glimco's cud. But big (6 ft., 210 Ibs.), confident Sandy Smith has built no barricade around his Woodstock home, where he lives with his wife and four children. "If you cover the mob," he says, "you expect to get cursed and spat...
Northern Future. Bow-tied Joey Smallwood, once a St. John's newsman, has been Premier through the whole decade of confederation. When he first took over, he earmarked some $25 million for an industrial development program that is beginning to produce results. Government-aided surveys turned up fabulous deposits of iron ore in Newfoundland's mainland territory of Labrador; one is now being mined, the other is scheduled to go into production in the 1960s. In Newfoundland and Labrador, surveyors uncovered promising finds of copper, lead and zinc, asbestos, fluorspar, gypsum and uranium. Perhaps even more significant...
...Newfoundland, where Premier Joey Smallwood is renowned as one of labor's best friends, one of labor's worst friends got a toe hold almost surreptitiously. Jimmy Hoffa and his racket-ridden International Brotherhood of Teamsters quietly set up two locals with 1,200 members. Alarmed, Smallwood last week bounced into the provincial legislature to denounce Hoffa & Co. as "pimps, panderers, white slavers, murderers, embezzlers, extortionists and dope peddlers." The legislators speedily responded with a sledgehammer law: the provincial government can now dissolve any local upon evidence that a "substantial number" of its union officers have been convicted...
Keep Talking (CBS, 10-10:30 p.m.). Everybody runs the four-minute mile in the speediest, funniest TV parlor game of them all; with Joey Bishop, Paul Winchell, Pat Carroll v. Morey Amsterdam, Danny Dayton, Nina Foch...